Microsoft released Silverlight 1.0 this week. Upon hearing the name Silverlight, did anyone else wonder: 1. Why Microsoft departed from its drab literal naming system? (such as, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition or Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista), and 2. Couldn’t they have come up with something better than Silverlight? Considering that, internally, Silverlight was referred to as Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere I guess they did make large strides towards improvement.

gapingvoid highlighted Microsoft’s need for name changes:

Apple calls their new OS “Tiger”. Micorsoft calls their new OS “Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005”.

Man, already it’s beginning to bore me, and I don’t even know what it does yet.

Apple has the “Newton”. MS has “Microsoft Windows Tablet PC Edition.”

There ya go, boring me again.

More on why the Silverlight name is a good thing.