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For the last few years, Microsoft has tried to separate the modern version of Internet Explorer from its legacy: a relatively slow, insecure browser saddled with proprietary features. Now Mark Hachman reports at PC World that as recently as a few weeks ago, members of the Internet Explorer development team debated renaming the browser, presumably in an effort to eliminate any distaste from the software's earliest days. According to one member of the Explorer Develop Group during an AMA on Reddit: "It's been suggested internally; I remember a particularly long email thread where numerous people were passionately debating it. Plenty of ideas get kicked around about how we can separate ourselves from negative perceptions that no longer reflect our product today," wrote Jonathon Sampson. "The discussion I recall seeing was a very recent one (just a few weeks ago). Who knows what the future holds :)"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @01:37AM
It's only "perfect" if you don't acknowledge that there was another "Explorer" before that one (and that that app still exists).
...and that humans tend to shorten the names of everything.
...then there are the folks that call it "IE". Huh? Obvious?
FOSS developers fail so miserably at naming[...]"Photoshop" versus "GIMP"
Graphical Image Manipulation Package. So cryptic. /sarc
See "shorten the names", above.
See "IE", above.
"Winamp"
Are you kidding? That's supposed to be obvious?
mplayer beats that.
A name I like is ogle.
Audio players are an even easier category: songbird, mpg123, atunes.
Copyright-ability is not of any particular value
Google-ability, however, is.
Windows? Word? Office? Money? .NET? WTF? See "shorten the names", above.
When Windoze gets a package manager, maybe finding Windoze-compatible apps will be easy.
Until then, FOSS OSes win at finding new software.
...and it's so freaking difficult to go to the forum for your distro and ask
"What do you guys use for ________?".
-- gewg_