on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:14:00AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt (hamish@debian.org) wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:14:50AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Try doing a Google search trying to identify issues with that > > oh-so-distinctively named MSFT blasphemy called, um, "Word". Minor > > variants -- WordPerfect, AbiWord, WordStar, fare much better. Note that > > some other MS products -- Excel and PowerPoint come to mind -- don't > > suffer this problem. OTOH, "Office", "Project", "Money", "Windows" do. > > > > Distinctive, descriptive software and package names strongly preferred. > > "water" IMVAO is far too generic. > > >From memory, according to the Gates biography "Hard Drive", this > scheme is deliberate by Microsoft.. they wanted their software to > be easily remembered. > > "PowerPoint" is an odd name for a presentation program, but then > Microsoft didn't write it in the first place, just licensed it > or purchased the company (AFAIK). But then, "Access" is a funny > name for a database too. Precisely the opposite tack is taken by many namers these days. David Shields of IBM's Jikes Java compiler mentioned that one advantage of the name is that he can check Usenet and Web archives to see who's saying what about the project. So...hi, Dave, if you're still scanning, and, say, when *is* IBM going to go IPO? <g>. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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