Microsoft Product Names

Tommy Unger — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:53:06 +0000

I’ve come across the longest product name I’ve ever seen for a Microsoft Software Product. Ladies and gentlemen, I present:
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Speech Server Developer Edition
or, as they say around Redmond: MOCS2SSDE

It’s always been a hobby of mine to keep track of what Microsoft is naming its products. It’s always in such sharp contrast with apple’s naming conventions, “iphone”, “imac”, etc. Microsoft seems to think the more it throws into the name, the more likely people will buy it. Well, I don’t buy it. If only MSFT would just come out with a spreadsheet that looks like this in their annual report:

Class	Product	Revenue	Profit
OS	Windows Vista Consumer	1,000	500
OS	Windows Vista Business	2,500	1,200
OS	Windows Server	2,500	1,500
Office Suite	Consumer	2,500	1,500
Office Suite	Business	12,500	6,500
Hardware	xbox	11,500	-11,500
Games	Halo, et. al.	5,500	-1,500
Who knows?	Enterprise Business Server Small Business Professional Platinum Edition	1,500	-111,500

As a sometimes shareholder of MSFT, maybe I just don’t dig deeply enough into things. Maybe it’s all out there already. But, if it’s not out there already, this sheet would go a long way to helping me figure out what’s going on in Redmond.

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Microsoft Product Names