Cortana could be called Bingo, but Steve Ballmer failed to get his own

Steve Ballmer quiso que Cortana, la conocida asistente personal de Microsoft, se llamase Bingo. Es algo bastante curioso que vuelve a traer a la palestra lo particular que podía llegar a ser el conocido ejecutivo de Microsoft. Ballmer nunca dejaba a nadie indiferente en sus intervenciones en público, para bien o para mal, y lo que a él le parecían ideas geniales eran percibidas más bien como ocurrencias poco o nada interesantes.

I am not giving you a personal opinion.Sandeep Paruchuri, an old employee who worked as a Microsoft product manager, has recently said in an interview that "Ballmer had bad taste" in relation to the brand's products, and that they came up with "genius" like that, byExample, everything had the Microsoft brand, and before leaving the company he wanted to leave, as a "gift", the name of Bingo to the new personal assistant of the Redmond giant.

The truth is that I agree with Neowin's colleagues, I don't understand what exactly in the head Steve Ballmer when he thought that calling a personal assistant bingo was a good idea, but maybe he was related to the popular song of the dog bingo.In any case, it is clear that it was a bad idea.Luckily Satya Nadella had other plans on her head, and we all know the end of the story.

Cortana was chosen as a favorite name by thousands of users

We might think that Microsoft made the decision that he wanted in a totally unilateral way, and that he decided to call his well -known virtual assistant to take advantage of the love, and popularity, which had the co -star of the Halo franchise.In part it was like that, that is, that was the reason why Microsoft opted for Cortana, but did not choose the name directly and unilaterally.

In 2013, Microsoft took into account the opinions that users poured into the Windows Phone support forums.More than 20.000 people voted for the company to maintain the name of Cortana, and among the comments that were generated we could see very positive opinions that they said, for example: «Cortana is the best possible name for artificial intelligence (an assistantvirtual in this case).She has guided us in the Halo franchise, and now you can guide us when using our phones ».

There is no doubt that Windows Phone's failure was a hard squeak for Cortana, but despite everything, and that Microsoft has considered renamed it several times, in the end that name has remained.Personally, I must say that Cortana seems successful for that wink towards the well -known AI of the Halo saga, but in practical terms, and focusing it on real use, it does not seem like a truly optimal choice either.

That said, I take the opportunity to release a question that I think is interesting, what name did you have put to Microsoft's personal assistant?Comments are your.