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Just so you know, Microsoft was forced to change the name after losing a trademark case in the UK.
by adolfojp 13y ago
Just so you know, Microsoft was forced to change the name after losing a trademark case in the UK.
- Karunamon 13y agoUgh. I'm going to guess Sky TV? Lawyers ruin everything.
- Pxtl 13y agoGmail, Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles, etc. Lots of companies have survived branding issues in the UK without a complete end-to-end rename. Microsoft's marketing department is just crazy. How many times did MSN Messenger get rebranded? Photo gallery? Their webmail thing? It's crazy. When they have a major platform, they're rock solid on the name (like the Office Word/Excel/whatever) but they change icons and GUIs willy-nilly. When they have a smaller, supporting platform, they get complete ADD on the name. When they have a developer tool? They just give it an ungoogleable description that doesn't even count as a name. Their SQL Server is called SQL Server. Their common language runtime is called the common language runtime. Their MVC framework is called MVC. Microsoft sucks at naming things. I think XBox is the last brand they created that they actually properly curated.
- bruceboughton 13y agoTheir SQL Server is called SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server. See also: Oracle Database, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite Their common language runtime is called the common language runtime. .NET Common Language Runtime Their MVC framework is called MVC. ASP.NET MVC.