Microsoft Product Name Generator

Lance and I were musing over some of the recent product renamings and it gave me the idea to throw together a product name generator. Here's my first stab at it:


Get Product Name:

Feel free to customize your own. Here's the srcipt source:

   1:  <script>
   2:  var pfx = new Array("", "Visual ", "Compact ", "Embedded ", "Expression ");
   3:  var prd = new Array("", "Windows ", "Office ", "SQL ", "FoxPro ", "BizTalk ");
   4:  var trm = new Array("Web ", "Robotics ", "Network ", "Testing ", "Project ", "Small Business ", "Team ", "Management ", "Graphic ", "Presentation ", "Communication ", "Workflow ", "Ajax ", "XML ", "Content ", "Source Control ");
   5:  var typ = new Array("", "Client ", "Workstation ", "Server ", "System ", "Console ", "Shell ", "Designer ");
   6:  var sfx = new Array("", "Express ", "Standard ", "Professional ", "Enterprise ", "Ultimate ", "Foundation ", ".NET ", "Framework ");
   7:   
   8:  function pick(ar) { return ar[Math.round((ar.length-1)*Math.random())]; }
   9:  function getProductName()
  10:  {
  11:      var name = "";
  12:   
  13:      name += pick(pfx);
  14:      name += pick(prd);
  15:      name += pick(trm);
  16:      name += pick(typ);
  17:      name += pick(sfx);
  18:   
  19:      var p = document.getElementById("p");
  20:      p.innerHTML = name;
  21:  }
  22:  </script>
  23:  <A href="#" onclick="getProductName()">Get Product Name</a>: <b><span id="p"></span></b>
Published Tuesday, June 20, 2006 6:13 PM by findleyd

Comments

# re: Microsoft Product Name Generator

Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:11 PM by Sahil Malik
LOL This is classic :)

# re: Microsoft Product Name Generator

Friday, August 31, 2007 4:13 AM by distribution

give sutable name for the distribution product

# re: Microsoft Product Name Generator

Friday, February 05, 2010 5:10 AM by tim

should make an updated version :-)

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# re: Microsoft Product Name Generator

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 10:22 PM by 0afj9ga09sjgd

It's genius but I have a few suggestions for added realism:

1. u need to fit "Live" in there someplace.

2. actual version numbers, of course!

2. u must prepend the word "Microsoft" or it's just not the same. No, we can't just assume or fill it in mentally. It must display!

3. consider appending the word "Edition" (maybe it does? I can't read the whole source ... ends of lines are cut off.)

4. generate real non-functioning links to nonexistent product documentation; maybe they could just do 3-4 automatic redirects to simulate their frequent web site redesign, and then just dump you at a high-level landing page for a product/division that has nothing to do with what you wanted to look up in the first place?

OK I'm getting carried away... funny tho! ;)

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