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Quite on-brand for Microsoft Teams to show me a list of 9 people in a team, and say there are 3 people in total.
Microsoft products where the objects the product works with have the same name as the product itself:
* Windows
* Teams
* Whiteboard
* Bookings
* Word (why not Words?)
* Project (noun, not verb, that one's called PowerPoint)
Microsoft products where they stuck "One" in front to distract you from the fact they're doing the thing again:
* OneDrive
* OneNote
Microsoft products whose names are verbs setting unachievable expectations of what you could achieve:
* Excel
* Engage
* Access
* PowerPoint
Ditto, but also named to remind you of another, less heinous, product in the hope some goodwill will rub off:
* SharePoint
Azure:
* Azure
@christianp 6 of these people are actually aliens (we will not tell you which)
Oh wait! Excel is part of the first group too, because it's made up of EXtra CELLs
And PowerPoint has a virtual POWERed laser POINTer in it... so there's that...
And Word maybe in the latter group:
John: I handed in that 43 page proposal that wrecked my life today!
Bob: Damn man congrats... did they like it?
John: Word...
@readtech yeah, good point. I had a "names that are weak puns" category, but decided the line was too fine to draw
@christianp In the first category: Forms. In both the first and third categories: Code.
@christianp Microsoft products that were a box with a big X on it:
* Xbox
@christianp
Actually, this may be of vague interest; we actually have a list of the rejected names for Xbox as revealed in an interview in Edge magazine back in 2013.
They are astonishingly bad.
@Vordus @christianp how.. how does it hurt to read every one of these
why do none of them sound like they describe a gaming console
why are they all acronyms...
@christianp OneDrive used to be SkyDrive but Sky Network threatened to sue the daylights out of them, as they do
@christianp power bi is my fav name for a ms product