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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 Retro ? |
| By Brunis on 2012-08-05 15:58:58 |
| I like Retro myself, remembering all the bad old days of Windows! |
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| RE: Metro has a new name |
| By Sparrowhawk on 2012-08-05 19:22:16 |
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Or given the less than glowing reviews so far, maybe "Windows Meh"? ;-) Me(h) grabs coat... |
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| RE[3]: Metro has a new name |
| By saso on 2012-08-05 22:50:40 |
| My deepest apologies for burdening your eyes with an additional dozen or so words to read today. |
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| RE[2]: Metro has a new name |
| By bassbeast on 2012-08-05 23:16:55 |
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Nah, "Windows Steve!" complete with exclamation point, since it is Steve's baby after all. BTW anybody caught any of Sinofsky's talks on WinWhatever? Man they are soooo funny! Count how many times the man says "touchscreens" in his presentations, hell you could make it into a drinking game and get snookered! I just thinks its hilarious that in a global recession, when MSFT has never had less pull, that Sinofsky has actually convinced himself that "Yeah AMD and Intel may be reporting doom because they can't sell what they have, and the OEMs are having sales up the ying yang just to move what they've got, but you know what will fix that? why raising prices another 45%+ to add touchscreens on systems where they don't make sense! Yeah, that's the ticket!" I swear the whole Win 8 mess is like a bad SNL sketch. Nobody even stops to think "Hey holding out your arm for hours to poke a vertical screen is painful!" or "Why would anybody with a nice widescreen monitor and perfectly functional keyboard and mouse gonna want to give that up for a lower quality screen with a 40% markup for touch?" nope its touch all the way down at team Redmond. If anybody has seen that SNL sketch of two American kids badly aping Japanese culture that pretty well sums up Ballmer's MSFT, just replace Japan with Cupertino and you'd have it in one. |
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| RE[2]: Just call it what it is |
| By Laurence on 2012-08-06 11:08:01 |
| I really do with that the peers who feel compelled to negative vote would at least have the balls to provide a technical explanation why. |
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| RE[3]: Just call it what it is |
| By Tuishimi on 2012-08-06 17:13:02 |
| Careful, commenting about another poster's balls might land you jail time in Italy, in the near future. :P |
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| RE: How about Retro ? |
| By Tuishimi on 2012-08-06 17:13:42 |
| Rastro-talk! :) (Astro, from the Jetsons? Nevermind, not funny). |
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| RE[2]: Just call it what it is |
| By btrimby on 2012-08-06 17:38:09 |
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Um... it's running on Windows NT 6.2 At least the release preview. I'm pretty sure that's what he meant. |
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| RE[3]: Just call it what it is |
| By Laurence on 2012-08-06 20:47:07 |
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> Um... it's running on Windows NT 6.2 At least the release preview. I'm pretty sure that's what he meant. I know that's what he meant and I was stating that it's not NT 6.2. If you read the link I posted you'd see that the version number is only stored as 6.2 for compatibility reasons but it's still regarded as v8. I agree it's a completely retarded approach to version numbering, but that's MS for you :p Edited 2012-08-06 20:48 UTC |
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| RE[4]: Just call it what it is |
| By btrimby on 2012-08-07 03:51:30 |
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Eh. I'd say that's marketing vs technical. It doesn't really matter either way. |
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