On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:14:50AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Try doing a Google search trying to identify issues with that > oh-so-distinctively named MSFT blasphemy called, um, "Word". Minor > variants -- WordPerfect, AbiWord, WordStar, fare much better. Note that > some other MS products -- Excel and PowerPoint come to mind -- don't > suffer this problem. OTOH, "Office", "Project", "Money", "Windows" do. > > Distinctive, descriptive software and package names strongly preferred. > "water" IMVAO is far too generic.
>From memory, according to the Gates biography "Hard Drive", this scheme is deliberate by Microsoft.. they wanted their software to be easily remembered. "PowerPoint" is an odd name for a presentation program, but then Microsoft didn't write it in the first place, just licensed it or purchased the company (AFAIK). But then, "Access" is a funny name for a database too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
