• envelope@kbin.social
    8·
    11 months ago

    Given that .net was a TLD long before the framework came out, it was a stupid thing to name it. Caused confusion and the inability to Google things right away.

      • Gork@lemm.ee
        4·
        11 months ago

        Microsoft Azure Blob

        (Yes it’s a real product they market)

        • eerongal@ttrpg.network
          1·
          11 months ago

          I mean, blob (and object storage in general) has been used as a term for a long time. It isn’t particularly new, and MS didn’t invent it.

          • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            11 months ago

            That’s sort of the problem. It’s easy to Google S3 since it’s a distinct (if obnoxiously short) term. Blob is already an overloaded term.

            An example of a great name from Microsoft is Excel, it’s relatively short but meaningless so if you Google “Excel Sum” you’ll get wonderful results… “Blob Get” is going to get you a lot of random stuff.

            Edit: the top result for blob get is accurate on Google but you’ll also quickly see this result from that site we all hate:

            Need help! How do I get the blob fish, basking shark and dwarf whale?

        • Lmaydev@programming.dev
          2·
          9 months ago

          Yeah Microsoft Entra is the latest one. Azure AD had such huge brand recognition and they just dropped it lol

        • kameecoding@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          At least they don’t control the most popular code hosting site along with the most popular code editing software, right? Right?

        • masinko@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago

          To prevent confusion, I call them “VS Code” and “Visual Studio IDE”, because if you say Visual Studio, people assume you mean Visual Studio Code.