@return2ozma to TechnologyEnglish • 6 months agoMicrosoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows appsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square78arrow-up1480arrow-down119cross-posted to: [email protected]technologynottheonion
arrow-up1461arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows appsarstechnica.com@return2ozma to TechnologyEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square78cross-posted to: [email protected]technologynottheonion
minus-square@marlowe221linkEnglish75•6 months agoThe only possible way Microsoft can be this bad at naming things is if they are actively doing it on purpose.
minus-squareTrailblazing Braille TaserlinkfedilinkEnglish32•edit-26 months agoHow can they expect regular people to remember what the Windows app does? It would seriously be better to pick a word at random than to overload the meaning of “Windows” again. Here are some way better names right off the top of my head: Kablam! Telefenestra Portle Microsoft micro/do
minus-squareAwesomeLowlanderlinkfedilinkEnglish12•6 months ago Telefenestra Is that where you defenestrate somebody remotely?
minus-squareTrailblazing Braille TaserlinkfedilinkEnglish3•6 months agoLol not as original as I thought!
The only possible way Microsoft can be this bad at naming things is if they are actively doing it on purpose.
How can they expect regular people to remember what the Windows app does? It would seriously be better to pick a word at random than to overload the meaning of “Windows” again.
Here are some way better names right off the top of my head:
Is that where you defenestrate somebody remotely?
Da, comrade.
That’s a cartoon. Kablam!
Lol not as original as I thought!
Marklar!