Words matter
You’re here because someone wanted to correct you but was too polite, so here we are… Find the right spelling, capitalisation or spacing, then share its direct link like a tiny grammatical hand grenade.
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I don't understand why you removed the space in the first place. Are there other Microsoft products without spaces between the name and the number? I'm not sure what's going on. How did we get here!?
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Because SharePoint maybe? Or maybe you think that CoPilot is correct.
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Because it feels like it should be, but it’s just not, so it’s like, totally weird… right?
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Because why shouldn’t it have a capital F? Because it’s not. It’s not a Microsoft product after all!
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Because SharePoint broke you, and now you write words with an uppercase “P” in them just in case.
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Because you didn't learn from Copilot, you've decided to continue with Cowork.
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Some of it is because Microsoft changed the product name after about 12 years, but the rest of it is on you.
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Because Apple iTunes.
The correct term is
Hard to put a finger on this one. Words mean things, and a letter difference can really change its meaning – in this case literally.
Premise meaning: a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion
Premises meaning: a piece of land together with its buildings
The correct term is
Look, SkyDrive was renamed to OneDrive back in 2014 so there’s really no reason for that one.
Also, since 2014, so… c’mon already.
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No reason really. It’s been around since 2003. Just because it’s new to you, doesn’t mean you can write incorrectly.
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This is actually Microsoft’s fault, because it was originally actually written as “PowerApps”. However, it was renamed several years ago – so you have no excuse now.
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The “BI” in this product name refers to “Business Intelligence” – something you’re not demonstrating when writing it incorrectly.
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Because the idea of a space between a buzzword and a trendy abbreviation fries people’s brains nearly as much as seeing every variation of Copilot.
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It’s existed since 1987 so you really don’t have an excuse at this point.
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I’m confused here too. I thought Microsoft only capitalised the letter “P” in the middle of words? (Except in the case of Copilot.)
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Because you were raised by wolves.
The correct term is
Because you never used SharePoint before it was forced upon you with Microsoft Teams. Now you refer to a Team in Microsoft Teams as a “team site” – except that’s actually a type of site template in SharePoint. So if you say “it’s in the team site” to someone who used SharePoint before 2017, they’ll go looking in the SharePoint site.
The correct term is
Because for some reason you thought that “CoPilot” was the correct spelling, and decided to apply that to Windows Autopilot.
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