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Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

How can they expect regular people to remember what the Windows app does? It would seriously be better to pick a word at random than to overload the meaning of "Windows" again.

Here are some way better names right off the top of my head:

Kablam!
Telefenestra
Portle
Microsoft micro/do

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Telefenestra

Is that where you defenestrate somebody remotely?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Da, comrade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Marklar!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kablam!

That's a cartoon. Kablam!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Lol not as original as I thought!