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    10 months ago

    “Let’s give our new command line app the same name as a popular linux command even though it’s not the same app and behaves differently. I’m sure our users would appreciate it when they have problem with the app and trying to search the solution later.”

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      10 months ago

      To be consistent with Powershell’s command structure, they should call it “Get-Access” or something similar…

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        10 months ago

        Given the horrible verbosity of PS utils, I’d expect they just abandon subtlety and call it Substitute-User-Do-Operation

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          I’m pretty sure it’s just Verb-Noun, I don’t think I’ve seen the multi-hyphen o es your reference

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          10 months ago

          > Set-Alias -Name Get-Ass -Value Get-Access
          > Get-Ass
          Get-Access : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x00000000 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

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      10 months ago

      “Because we are Microsoft, the company known for giving its products perfectly reasonable and not confusing names”

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        Sentinel, Defender (not the AV, lol), Entra. I hear these daily in meetings and don’t know what the hell they are. (Not my job)

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          Sentinel is MS’s SEIM product, defender is likely people referring to their paid av offering, Entra is what they renamed AzureAD recently which is their identity management platform. Not sure why they renamed the last one azureAD was a good name for it.

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            Maybe because they were getting tired of hearing from admins frustrated that Azure AD still doesn’t have full feature parity with “normal” AD? Now it’s clearly a separate product at least.

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        I think Google’s the worst for this. Examples such as the browser Chrome, when browser chrome has been a thing for a long time. Go, a very common verb and keyword and also now a programming language. Not to be confused with their Go Links, which was a URL shortener. And then there’s all the ones they either rebrand or retire and/or replace.

        Perhaps they want confusing names because they think other search engines can’t handle the ambiguity.

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          To be honest, other programming languages aren’t named any better

          Pascal is just a common name, Rust is a common noun, Java is an island which you cannot find by searching for just its name, Python’s a snake, C# is a musical note and C is just a letter.

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      They’ve had a real problem with names recently. I wonder if the laid all the creative people off in that company. Miss me with this “new outlook” “new teams” “teams for work and school” just think of a new name for each app for the love of god…

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        Not a new problem. Many years ago they released a server app to download and deploy updates to a businesses computers. They called it Windows Update Service, or WUS. A bit later they changed the name to Windows Server Update Service (WSUS). The FAQ on the name change noted the old name “did not accurately reflect the value of the software”