… because it keeps on renaming them. Which means they have to review their Sourcecode to replace all the occurences of the product name, and then they have to fix the resulting bugs again.

Latest name changes: WinFX becomes .NIET Framework 3.0, Antigen becomes Forefront.

I wonder what the new name of the Internet Explorer will be, once it’s released. Maybe “Windows Live Explorer”? Or is maybe Microsoft introducing it’s previous try in setting up a brand - “Microsoft Passport Explorer”? Or will it be “Microsoft Live Passwort.NET Explorer”?

I wonder what Vista will be called once it’s released? How about “Duke Nukem Forever”?

The funny thing is that Microsoft lost track of its product names itself - ther are two different products named Microsoft Live Search.