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AND THE AWARD FOR THE LONGEST MICROSOFT PRODUCT NAME GOES TO . . .

Why do Microsoft product names keep getting longer? I have this hunch that there is a secret competition going on in Redmond in the product team to get the longest product name out there. What makes me suspect this? Well . . .

. . .  Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Beta !

Of course, the original parady of Microsoft and product naming is the infamous Microsoft redesigns iPod packaging. If you have never seen it, you must watch it!

Posted: Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:47 PM by David Gristwood

Comments

mikehall said:

or, how about...

Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007

- Mike
# September 21, 2006 3:10 PM

DanielMoth said:

Nah, the longest name is won by this:-) http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2006/09/xpe-sp2-fp07-ctp-wtf.html
# September 27, 2006 10:57 AM

Strategic Name Development Product Naming Blog said:

Microsoft’s recent announcement that they plan to install the Software Protection Platform (only a few offerings from Microsoft have longer names) into the new version of Vista and has the Internet in an uproar. On one hand, it is obvious that with counterfeit

# October 5, 2006 4:54 PM
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