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Dear Microsoft. Renaming something does not make it better. It just confuses your customers.
by jostmey 13y ago
Dear Microsoft. Renaming something does not make it better. It just confuses your customers.
- ben336 13y agothey're legally required to rename it: http://gizmodo.com/microsoft-has-to-change-skydrives-name-because-of-a-la-976021224 http://gizmodo.com/microsoft-has-to-change-skydrives-name-be... (Edit: technically it didn't get quite that far. They're preemptively renaming to settle a lawsuit that they would lose. Regardless it remains hilarious how much trouble Microsoft has naming things. Even when they have good names like Skydrive, they turn out to be bad ones).
- lini 13y agoThey had no choice - British Sky Broadcasting Group owns the trademark and forced the name change about 6 months ago.
- Pxtl 13y agoThen do what Google did and keep using the brand name everywhere else except Britain. You have to do internationalization anyways. It's not like you call it the same thing in Swahili or Mandarin, why not just call it something different in British English and keep the established brand running everywhere else?
- RossM 13y agoThis renaming was triggered by a trademark issue - http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/27/5349830/microsoft-onedrive-new-name-for-skydrive http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/27/5349830/microsoft-onedrive...