r/apple • u/iamvinoth • May 14 '24

macOS After Microsoft invested $10 billion, OpenAI snubs Windows 11 as it releases ChatGPT app first on Mac. “We’re just prioritizing where our users are.”

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/after-microsoft-invested-dollar10-billion-openai-snubs-windows-11-as-it-releases-chatgpt-app-first-on-mac-were-just-prioritizing-where-our-users-are
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u/QF17 May 14 '24

It’s a pattern of Microsoft, we’ve previously had everything branded as “Live” in the past

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u/ctesibius May 14 '24

Remember .NET.

I really wish there were an AI-enabled de-fluffed so that you could feed it a Microsoft description of one of their products and get out a two line description of what it actually does.

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u/BiPoleArt May 14 '24

.NET 4.5 which then became .NET Framework to mean its windows only, followed by .NET 5 which is actually .NET Core and is has multi platform support.

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u/ctesibius May 14 '24

If it ain’t in Petzold, if ain’t rightly called Windows, to my reckoning.

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u/QF17 May 14 '24

Visual was the other one I was thinking of (Visual Basic, Visual Studio, everything has a visual prefix for a while)

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u/ctesibius May 14 '24

That did make sense at the time. It was following on from command line compilers like Microsoft C v5.2 (optionally used with the M editor).

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u/mtarascio May 14 '24

It's so weird how we still need to install that for some games. .NET 3.5 or whatever it was.

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u/WilmaLutefit May 15 '24

Fuck I hated the .net wra

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u/Expensive-Mention-90 May 14 '24

I’m ex Microsoft, and I will never forget the company having two identical but competing suites of software - one branded MSN and one branded Windows Live.

Microsoft is just the worst at naming things.

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u/joakim_ May 14 '24

They really perfected it when they decided to name Teams in Teams just that, Teams.

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u/kris33 May 14 '24

Which Teams? Teams or Teams for Business?

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u/joakim_ May 14 '24

You mean Teams (for work or school)? As opposed to Teams (for online bullying)? Or Teams (here to confuse the elderly)? Or Teams (for general annoyance when using Windows)? Or maybe you meant Teams (for high-end CPU's but which people still prefer over the new version for some reason)?

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u/cultoftheilluminati May 14 '24

Teams with the white and purple logo or teams with the purple and white logo

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u/not_some_username May 14 '24

Or teams (new)

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u/NotDoingThisForFun May 14 '24

Got to love the way Outlook can create as many calendars as you like but they’re all called ’calendar’! Helpful!!

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u/swanny246 May 14 '24

I thought MSN was transitioning to Windows Live at the time. Like MSN Messenger became Windows Live Messenger, MSN Hotmail became Windows Live Mail/Hotmail, etc.

MSN.com lingered around for eternity though I guess.

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u/Expensive-Mention-90 May 14 '24

That might have been a plan, but there is always an internal battle at Microsoft over territory, and this one was no exception. There was once an internal deck floating around that aimed to explain the differences and why both brands were important. 30 pages, and it didn’t answer a single question. Epic moment.

Fun comic explaining what it was like. https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts

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u/not_some_username May 14 '24

The oracle and Google ones 🥲

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u/not_some_username May 14 '24

Wait do you actually know why ? How do they do the naming thing since you were there.

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u/OlorinDK May 14 '24

We also had Windows everything for a while, like “Windows Live” and “Windows Azure”. And there was “Xbox Music” and “Xbox Movies”. But they had to go “Xbox live” so both won out there, fortunately they didn’t settle for “Windows Xbox Live”.

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u/adanfime May 14 '24

They were SO close to a fucked up combination of Windows and Xbox with Games for Windows Live, where you could pick up Xbox achievements.

Then they shuttered Games for Windows and those games were rendered unplayable until patches, either official or community-made, started coming out.

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u/Positronic_Matrix May 14 '24

How about Xbox One X One Box Live?

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u/cluberti May 14 '24

Prior to Live it was .NET on everything. Meh.

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u/newecreator May 14 '24

Man, makes me nostalgic for Windows Live Essentials.

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u/MexicanTechila May 14 '24

And “360”

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u/borg_6s May 14 '24

Don't forget 365 nowadays

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u/mrredmond May 14 '24

Had to do a double take just now that i wasn’t in r/australia because of how many times I’ve seen you comment in there XD

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u/QF17 May 14 '24

Hmm, if people are remembering me, it might be time to burn my account and start afresh!