• @AaronMaria@lemmy.ml
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    331 year ago

    Coming from the Company that brought you “Visual Studio” and “Visual Studio Code” and called the followup of “.NET Framework” just “.NET”. Sometimes I think they want their products to be hard to search.

    • Helix 🧬
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      221 year ago

      Or the Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox One X/S, Xbox Series X/S.

      Or Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11.

      Someone at Microsoft just really wants people to know that naming is hard. I am pretty sure they’re intentionally confusing customers so they only know what the current product is.

    • I still mess up launching it on my work Mac. Apparently “Code” works but “VSCode” doesn’t, and everybody calls it “VSCode” where I work.

      I’m usually a ViM person, but I gave it a go when helping out with an unfamiliar project.