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539 points donohoe | 7 comments | 09 Jul 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.003s | source | bottom
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mihaic ◴[10 Jul 25 06:53 UTC] No.44518079[source]▶
Tangential, I still find it absurd people accept calling it X instead of Twitter. While I'd generally agree that most companies can change their name, encroaching on a basic letter should be off limits, like naming your company "The" or "God".

Still sticking with Twitter until a reasonable name is found, which by Musk is never.

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1. cobbaut ◴[10 Jul 25 07:48 UTC] No.44518426[source]▶
> like naming your company "The" or "God".

or naming a product "Word" or "Office" or "Windows". :)

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2. mafuy ◴[10 Jul 25 07:57 UTC] No.44518481[source]▶
Microsoft is notorious for naming stuff in a way that makes it impossible to search for information. It is quite annoying.
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3. amelius ◴[10 Jul 25 08:01 UTC] No.44518508[source]▶
.NET, lol.
4. windward ◴[10 Jul 25 08:15 UTC] No.44518572[source]▶
For this reason it's essentially impossible to search for solutions to the many bugs in Windows' Multiple Desktops
5. lou1306 ◴[10 Jul 25 08:32 UTC] No.44518689[source]▶
But at least you can search for "Microsoft Office" to counter the issue. Plus, they have the excuse that they have been doing this since before the Web existed, literally.

What do you do with X? "X social"? Ludicrous.

6. LoveMortuus ◴[10 Jul 25 08:51 UTC] No.44518810[source]▶
Microsoft naming makes sense if you imagine that the person that came up with the names was stoned, like high on weed.

"Yo dude, to use the spreadsheets you've got to like excel and stuff. ", "When you make your point it's gotta be powerful. ", "Ain't my point having a database if you can't access it. ", "A: I need a tool to write my book, it's gonna change the world. B: Word bro, word. ", "Bro, you have to connect with people to expand your outlook on life, the world and stuff. ".

7. smcl ◴[10 Jul 25 09:21 UTC] No.44519005[source]▶
Those can be easily identified as "Microsoft Word", "Microsoft Office" and "Microsoft Windows". However "X" is the name of the company and the product.

I guess you could refer to it as "X The Everything App" or using the incredibly corny and near-immediately-binned tagline "X: Blaze Your Glory!" but I've only ever seen those used by people making fun of the product, company, Elon or all three.