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Microsoft names many things stupidly.

Fuck you forever SQLServer. Transact was perfectly googleable.

wasn't it originally idiotically named "SQL/Server"?

Microsoft Azure Blob

(Yes it's a real product they market)

I mean, blob (and object storage in general) has been used as a term for a long time. It isn't particularly new, and MS didn't invent it.

That's sort of the problem. It's easy to Google S3 since it's a distinct (if obnoxiously short) term. Blob is already an overloaded term.

An example of a great name from Microsoft is Excel, it's relatively short but meaningless so if you Google "Excel Sum" you'll get wonderful results... "Blob Get" is going to get you a lot of random stuff.

Edit: the top result for blob get is accurate on Google but you'll also quickly see this result from that site we all hate:

Need help! How do I get the blob fish, basking shark and dwarf whale?

Excel is a brand name, Azure Blob Storage is a descriptive title. It's Azure's blob storage service.

Visual Studio Code

To prevent confusion, I call them "VS Code" and "Visual Studio IDE", because if you say Visual Studio, people assume you mean Visual Studio Code.

And renames a random product every month, following a restructuring it's licensing

At least they don't control the most popular code hosting site along with the most popular code editing software, right? Right?

Yeah Microsoft Entra is the latest one. Azure AD had such huge brand recognition and they just dropped it lol