A true story: at one point Microsoft was selling four entirely unrelated products all pronounced "link". Microsoft Link, Linq, Lynq and Lync.
You'd think whoever let that happen would have lost their job, but years later as we were struggling to fix a Teams interop problem in Firefox, we discovered that the real problem was that MS had _two unrelated products called Microsoft Teams_ who never talked to each other.
Well good news everyone, that guy got promoted:
theverge.com/news/627483/micro…
Microsoft is replacing Remote Desktop with its new Windows app
Microsoft is replacing its Remote Desktop app with the new Windows app. The transition will take place on May 27th.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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Yeah, the semi-obvious endgame here is that windows becomes what we used to call a "thin terminal" where the OS is actually full-time SAAS.
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in reply to mhoye • • •Not to take away from the amusement but LINQ wasn't "sold" nor was it a product, it was a technology included in .NET.
Microsoft really do have a naming problem though. I used to work at Xbox and I couldn't tell you how all the Xbox console names relate to each other. Unlike PlayStation where any Joe can understand that.