I used to work for Microsoft, and the marketing teams would regularly change the name of products days before big announcements and tradeshows like Build and Ignite.<p>Of course, they couldn’t tell anyone who needed to know ahead of time, because it was a “PR Moment” and leaks would upset the news media attention.<p>But the practical effect was that I’d be on the show floor and customers would come up and ask to see “Microsoft Turquoise AI for Haberdashery” and I’d be like “WTF is that??” and they’d say “The thing Satya just announced at the keynote” and I’d be like “employees aren’t allowed in the keynote can you explain what it does” and they would and I’d say, “oh, that’s the old Microsoft Designer for Clothes, I can tell you about that” but then I’d find all the demos I have aren’t relevant anymore because the name has changed and the PMs weren’t given any time to redo them with the new branding, and I can’t give a live demo because the UI has changed completely and I haven’t been trained on it.<p>This happened EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.