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First SkyDrive, now Skype? What is this company's deal with attacking Microsoft and others over a very very generic word? For what it's worth, Sky is only 60%

First SkyDrive, now Skype? What is this company's deal with attacking Microsoft and others over a very very generic word? For what it's worth, Sky is only 60% of Skype, and Skype has 2 more letters.

frik 11y ago
Also MS "Metro" UI nowadays named "Modern UI": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_UI#Name_change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_UI#Name_change Metro Group, Germany's largest retailer, had something against it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG). Yet, it's an abbreviation of "metropolitan" and is used for many other things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro
- wvenable 11y ago
  Microsoft should have never backed down on this one.
  - UntitledNo4 11y ago
    Metro AG owns Media Markt and Saturn[1], both sell electronics, including computers. Judging by their stores, most of these computers are PCs (although they do sell Apple computers as well). Media Markt, is Europe's largest retailer of consumer electronics[2]. Saturn is one of the big retailers of consumer electronics in Germany, and have stores in some other European countries[3]. So perhaps Microsoft could have won that one, but at what cost? Pissing off one of their biggest retailers? I don't know for sure, but it seems very likely that Microsoft wouldn't want to do that and made the decision to back off instead. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Markt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Markt [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(store) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(store)
    - wvenable 11y ago
      The thing is Microsoft's Metro isn't even a product, it's just a name for a technology. Why should this company even care. The whole is ridiculous and that's why Microsoft should not have backed down on it.

First SkyDrive, now Skype? What is this company's deal with attacking Microsoft and others over a very very generic word? For what it's worth, Sky is only 60% of Skype, and Skype has 2 more letters.

frik 11y ago

Also MS "Metro" UI nowadays named "Modern UI": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_UI#Name_change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_UI#Name_change Metro Group, Germany's largest retailer, had something against it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG). Yet, it's an abbreviation of "metropolitan" and is used for many other things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro

wvenable 11y ago
Microsoft should have never backed down on this one.
- UntitledNo4 11y ago
  Metro AG owns Media Markt and Saturn[1], both sell electronics, including computers. Judging by their stores, most of these computers are PCs (although they do sell Apple computers as well). Media Markt, is Europe's largest retailer of consumer electronics[2]. Saturn is one of the big retailers of consumer electronics in Germany, and have stores in some other European countries[3]. So perhaps Microsoft could have won that one, but at what cost? Pissing off one of their biggest retailers? I don't know for sure, but it seems very likely that Microsoft wouldn't want to do that and made the decision to back off instead. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Markt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Markt [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(store) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(store)
  - wvenable 11y ago
    The thing is Microsoft's Metro isn't even a product, it's just a name for a technology. Why should this company even care. The whole is ridiculous and that's why Microsoft should not have backed down on it.