Goodbye to Windows Live

Apparently, Microsoft is phasing out the Windows Live brand name.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/business/windows-live-brand-fades-into-the-sunset-digital-domain.html>
<http://www.odt.co.nz/blogs/dene-mackenzie/211881/time-say-goodbye-windows-live>


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Char Jackson

On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:04:55 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:

> Apparently, Microsoft is phasing out the Windows Live brand name.
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/business/windows-live-brand-fades-into-the-sunset-digital-domain.html>
> <http://www.odt.co.nz/blogs/dene-mackenzie/211881/time-say-goodbye-windows-live>

I'll need to go out & buy some extra Kleenex Live (TM) to get me through
this trauma...

OK, I admit that my primary feeling abut Windows Live has to do with
Windows live Mail, so my view is seriously parochial :-)

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:30:59 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

> On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:04:55 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:
>
>> Apparently, Microsoft is phasing out the Windows Live brand name.
>>
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/business/windows-live-brand-fades-into-the-sunset-digital-domain.html>
>> <http://www.odt.co.nz/blogs/dene-mackenzie/211881/time-say-goodbye-windows-live>
>
> I'll need to go out & buy some extra Kleenex Live (TM) to get me through
> this trauma...
>
> OK, I admit that my primary feeling abut Windows Live has to do with
> Windows live Mail, so my view is seriously parochial :-)

And while just for fun browsing around New Zealand (i.e., your second
link) I ran across this:

http://www.odt.co.nz/blogs/anna-chin...n-surface-moon

My only defense for posting this is that the domain of that link is odt,
clearly (in this instance) meaning "off the damn topic".

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:04:55 -0500, Char Jackson <>
wrote:

>
> Apparently, Microsoft is phasing out the Windows Live brand name.
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/business/windows-live-brand-fades-into-the-sunset-digital-domain.html>
> <http://www.odt.co.nz/blogs/dene-mackenzie/211881/time-say-goodbye-windows-live>



Glad to hear it. Good as Microsoft is at some things, they are often
terrible at naming things, and often confuse many people with the
names they choose. As a single example, speaking of the Windows Live
brand name, many people mix up Windows Live Mail and Windows Mail.

On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:35:56 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

> On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:04:55 -0500, Char Jackson <>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Apparently, Microsoft is phasing out the Windows Live brand name.
>>
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/business/windows-live-brand-fades-into-the-sunset-digital-domain.html>
>> <http://www.odt.co.nz/blogs/dene-mackenzie/211881/time-say-goodbye-windows-live>
>
> Glad to hear it. Good as Microsoft is at some things, they are often
> terrible at naming things, and often confuse many people with the
> names they choose. As a single example, speaking of the Windows Live
> brand name, many people mix up Windows Live Mail and Windows Mail.

Thanks for the chance to b*tch (again!):

Outlook vs Outlook Express

*The* Administrator vs *an* Administrator account

Maybe even Excel vs Access

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 16:53:58 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
<not-> wrote:

>On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:35:56 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:04:55 -0500, Char Jackson <>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Apparently, Microsoft is phasing out the Windows Live brand name.
>>>
>>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/business/windows-live-brand-fades-into-the-sunset-digital-domain.html>
>>> <http://www.odt.co.nz/blogs/dene-mackenzie/211881/time-say-goodbye-windows-live>
>>
>> Glad to hear it. Good as Microsoft is at some things, they are often
>> terrible at naming things, and often confuse many people with the
>> names they choose. As a single example, speaking of the Windows Live
>> brand name, many people mix up Windows Live Mail and Windows Mail.
>
>Thanks for the chance to b*tch (again!):
>
>Outlook vs Outlook Express
>
>*The* Administrator vs *an* Administrator account
>
>Maybe even Excel vs Access
>
Also, Windows Explorer vs. Internet Explorer.

On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:43:30 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
<not-> wrote:

>On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:30:59 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:04:55 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:
>>
>>> Apparently, Microsoft is phasing out the Windows Live brand name.
>>>
>>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/business/windows-live-brand-fades-into-the-sunset-digital-domain.html>
>>> <http://www.odt.co.nz/blogs/dene-mackenzie/211881/time-say-goodbye-windows-live>
>>
>> I'll need to go out & buy some extra Kleenex Live (TM) to get me through
>> this trauma...
>>
>> OK, I admit that my primary feeling abut Windows Live has to do with
>> Windows live Mail, so my view is seriously parochial :-)
>
>And while just for fun browsing around New Zealand (i.e., your second
>link) I ran across this:
>
>http://www.odt.co.nz/blogs/anna-chin...n-surface-moon
>
>My only defense for posting this is that the domain of that link is odt,
>clearly (in this instance) meaning "off the damn topic".

Very nice. :-)

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Char Jackson

On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 16:53:58 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
<not-> wrote:

[snip]

>Thanks for the chance to b*tch (again!):
>
>Outlook vs Outlook Express
>
>*The* Administrator vs *an* Administrator account
>
>Maybe even Excel vs Access

Or Access and Access? (There was an Access before the DBMS. It
was a communications program.)

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:06:30 -0500, Antares 531
<> wrote:

[snip]

>Also, Windows Explorer vs. Internet Explorer.

That one makes sense to me.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Char Jackson wrote:

> Apparently, Microsoft is phasing out the Windows Live brand name.
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/business/windows-live-brand-fades-into-the-sunset-digital-domain.html>
> <http://www.odt.co.nz/blogs/dene-mackenzie/211881/time-say-goodbye-windows-live>

Not really anything new regarding Microsoft's penchant to badly name
their products or services.

Directories became folders supposedly to avoid confusion with domain
directories.

Internet Mail & News (IMN) was renamed to Outlook Express despite that
it was unrelated to the Outlook product. Tons of users thought they
were using a light version of Outlook. And, of course, Outlook can't be
named Outlook when used on a Mac but instead gets renamed to Entourage.

After a makeover, COM/OLE got rebranded to ActiveX.

Products include characters that are usually dropped or ignored by
online search engines, like .Net instead of MSNet. At least a search of
MSNet might find articles relevant to it but .Net searches on Net which
means you're all over the place regarding topics. "Net Framework" works
better but few actually discuss .Net with the Framework name added.

We have a file and desktop manager called [Windows] Explorer confused
with a web browser called Internet Explorer. You can web browse using
either and file browse using either by using the address bar in either.

Office went from version numbers to year number versioning with a
one-time excursion into letter versioning and then back to year number
versioning. Users often didn't know what version they had with Office
XP where each component was actually the 2002 year number version.

Windows, the NT (New Technology) product, starts with version numbers
3.5, and up, to show they follow after the Windows (9x/DOS line) of
3.11. Then the 9x/DOS line starts using year numbers for versions (95,
98) and changes to letters (ME = Millenium Edition). The NT line, while
still having underlying version numbers, also goes to year number
versioning but Microsoft decides to put names on major versions, like XP
and Vista, and then goes back to version numbers, like 7 and 8.
Microsoft also decides to slice up functionality with each version to
gives us editions of each version, like Home, Home Premium,
Professional, Ultimate, Business, Enterprise, Starter, Workstation, and
Server (Enterprise Edition to Advanced Server and back to Enterprise
Edition).

Microsoft introduces a boob's OS interface (desktop manager) with some
dumbed-down apps called Bob but no one knew what it was and those that
did had no want of it. They emulated IBM's advertising of OS/2 Warp
that never identified what the ad was selling (similar to some pretty
stupid jeans and parfume commercials).

VSS: Is it Virtual SourceSafe or Volume Shadow [Copy] Service?

Windows Genuine Advantage. Microsoft's means to track licensing in a
very slip-shod manner. A bad joke trying to emulate seat licensing.
Installs that are valid become invalid. An advantage to whom? Not to
the user, for sure.

PlaysForSure, a logo certification program for services and devices that
employed Windows Media DRM. PlaysForSure tracks often failed to play on
the certified devices, wouldn't play in other devices or players, and
didn't even play in Microsoft's own music player. A more accurate
product name would've been MusicCripple&FailDRM.

Messenger. Would that be Windows Messenger (an NT service for opening
popup messages to intranet hosts), the old MSN Messenger chat client, or
Live Messenger renamed to Windows Live Messenger?

SiteServer became OfficeServer and then SharePoint. Anyone even
remember Groove?