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>Can you imagine how bad Lenovo Windows or Dell Windows would be? Why not just reserve the trademark Windows to Microsoft? If other OEMs want to muck up their
by curt15 8y ago
>Can you imagine how bad Lenovo Windows or Dell Windows would be?
Why not just reserve the trademark Windows to Microsoft? If other OEMs want to muck up their own builds they would have to brand it their own and risk their own reputation.
- da_chicken 8y agoThat's exactly what would happen. That's why we don't see hijacking forms of Firefox.
- zdragnar 8y agoThe name Windows is irrelevant for a good chunk of the population. I remember helping some first year college students in the early 2000's (apparently Dell had a batch of faulty hard drives in their new computers). When they came to me for help, I asked if they had mac or windows computers, and the answer was "Um... Dell?". It's the same with Android. A very small percentage of people buy phones with pure Android OS on them. The rest of the non-Apple crowd buy whatever looks good at the store and calls it Android. I would absolutely love to be proven wrong on all of this. I rarely use Windows (mostly for gaming) and otherwise a linux is my daily driver, so either way I'm not likely to be impacted much. Perhaps I'm just too cynical after all of the utter nonsense Lenovo and gang have pulled with windows in the past as it is.