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| Microsoft drops 'Metro' name |
| By Thom Holwerda, submitted by KLU9 on 2012-08-04 02:12:24 |
| Eh. Microsoft has instructed its employees to drop the name 'Metro', due to a trademark conflict with an 'an important European partner'. The Verge has learned that Microsoft plans to unveil a new name next week. Considering Microsoft has been beating the Metro drum for quite a few years now, this all seems a bit silly. The European partner in question is believed to be Metro AG, a huge collection of electronic retail stores covering several different chains (I've got a few within a few kilometres of my middle-of-nowhere hick hometown). Depending on what they come up with, I will continue to use the Metro name. I like it, and I don't give a rat's bum about trademark disputes. |
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| How about "Windows" while they are at it? |
| By Morgan on 2012-08-04 03:30:23 |
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It's interesting to see the tables turned; I remember back when Microsoft was all too eager to sue a home improvement company for having a website name with the word "windows" despite the company owning the trademark long before Bill Gates bought and re-released DOS. But really, "Windows" 8 isn't an apt name anymore (not that "Metro" ever was). I think they should call it "Tiles" instead. That way it's more relevant to the product, and still gives them the opportunity to sue home improvement companies. :) Edited 2012-08-04 03:31 UTC |
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| Metro has a new name |
| By cjcox on 2012-08-04 06:23:16 |
| They've decided to simply call it "Me". |
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| RE: How about "Windows" while they are at it? |
| By viton on 2012-08-04 12:51:08 |
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In Russia MS tried to grab http://windows.ru without a success. Edited 2012-08-04 12:51 UTC |
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| Comment by Lazarus |
| By Lazarus on 2012-08-04 16:05:48 |
| Too bad Microsoft is dropping the "Windows Live" branding. "Windows Live Tiles" would work in this case pretty well. |
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| Just call it what it is |
| By tuaris on 2012-08-04 21:19:42 |
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Why not just call it what it really is instead of fooling the less intelligent with all this marketing. Windows 6.2 |
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| RE: Metro has a new name |
| By saso on 2012-08-04 22:15:05 |
| Would be hilarious, especially considering the still well remembered and "beloved" Windows Me :-D |
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| RE[2]: Metro has a new name |
| By Laurence on 2012-08-05 00:51:06 |
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> Would be hilarious, especially considering the still well remembered and "beloved" Windows Me :-D I think most people worked out his joke without the additional narration from yourself :p |
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| RE: Just call it what it is |
| By Laurence on 2012-08-05 00:58:22 |
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> Why not just call it what it really is instead of fooling the less intelligent with all this marketing. Windows 6.2 You're wrong on all counts: Windows 8 is definitely version NT 8 for the following reasons: Windows 7 is actually Windows 7 (the internal version number of 6.1 was purely for compatibility reasons: http://windowsteamblog.com/windo... ). Win 8 is a much more significant break from Win7 and 7 was from Vista so it seems fair that Win 8 would be a major version number up as well (thus Windows 8). Furthermore, Metro is just a shell and not an OS. So calling it "Windows n" would just be ignorant anyway. It would be like calling Explorer.exe "Windows 95" or progman.exe "Windows 3.x". |
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| RE[3]: Metro has a new name |
| By thavith_osn on 2012-08-05 03:48:34 |
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> > Would be hilarious, especially considering the still well remembered and "beloved" Windows Me :-D I think most people worked out his joke without the additional narration from yourself :p I think most people worked out we didn't need the addition narration without your additional narration (oh, now I've added one)... :-) |
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| RE: Metro has a new name |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-05 06:55:11 |
| Me is a great name, because then they could call their tablet version Mobile Me. That name became recently available. |
| - Score: 2 |
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