• Gork@lemm.ee
      40·
      11 months ago

      Microsoft Azure Blob

      (Yes it’s a real product they market)

      • eerongal@ttrpg.network
        14·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
          24·
          11 months ago

          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?

      • masinko@lemmy.world
        8·
        11 months ago

        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.

      • kameecoding@lemmy.world
        8·
        11 months ago

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

      • Lmaydev@programming.dev
        2·
        9 months ago

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