Microsoft's vernacular is getting annoying
One thing that's surprised me is the growing number of terms that Microsoft has tried to politically morph into something more Redmond-centric. While I first thought such practice was comical, this is becoming more and more irritating for me as the list grows. It's forcing people to become bilingual for computer science discussions.
In each of the following the first term is that which the rest of the world uses, followed by its Redmond moniker.
In each of the following the first term is that which the rest of the world uses, followed by its Redmond moniker.
- JavaScript ==> ECMAScript
- RSS feeds ==> Web feeds
- Widgets ==> Gadgets
- Web 2.0 ==> "Live" software
posted by Jason Salas @ 7:19 AM
3 Comments:
At November 17, 2005 1:40 AM,
Joel Ross said…
Beta ==> 1.0
:)
At November 17, 2005 4:58 AM,
Haacked said…
Well technically MS didn't rename Javascript to ECMAScript. ECMA is a standards board. ECMAScript refers to a variation of Javascript submitted to ECMA for standardization.
A better one would be Javascript -> JScript.
At November 17, 2005 7:54 AM,
Jason Salas said…
Hey Haacked,
True, MS didn't create the name ECMASscript, nor did they start using it until .NET 1.0, when they tried to influence everyone to not acknowledge anything having to do with Java.
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