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Why does Microsoft always create so many ugly, confusing, and ridiculous product names? The worst of them all is ".Net" (which is really confusing).

Last Updated: 29.06.2025 07:14

Why does Microsoft always create so many ugly, confusing, and ridiculous product names? The worst of them all is ".Net" (which is really confusing).

They didn’t even bother to change the name. What the fuck, guys.

When Google released the next version of Gemini 1.5 Pro, they called it Gemini 1.5 Pro-002 (I wish I was joking, but I’m not).

Keep in mind, though, there are only two hard problems in software: Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

Why is Luigi Mangjone being seen as courageous if he was too cowardly to look his victim in the eyes? Don't Hollywood heroes look their victims in the eyes when shooting/stabbing/choking them?

It’s not just Microsoft. Look at the way top AI companies these days name their foundation models.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

*drumroll*

Why would Trump make conspiracy claims that Haitians are eating pets in Ohio?

When OpenAI released their successor to GPT-4, they called it GPT-4o. Their next model after that was called o1.

But I mean, Microsoft was a pioneer in this field and is still the undisputed king of bad naming.

And when Anthropic released the successor to Claude 3.5 Sonnet, they called it…

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