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fendy3002 45 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

Microsoft's school of naming versions, windows (95->98->xp->vista->seven->8...) and xbox (360, one, series x)

applfanboysbgon 45 days ago [–]

Don't worry, Microsoft has addressed their naming difficulties by determining that everything they ever make will now be called CoPilot.

actionfromafar 45 days ago | [–]

They tried for a while to call everything .NET

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