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OneDrive Is Microsoft's Rebranded Name For SkyDrive
SmartAboutThings writes with news that Microsoft finally figured out what to rename SkyDrive, after losing rights to the trademark last year. From the article: "Microsoft has just announced that SkyDrive, their cloud storage service, will be renamed to OneDrive very soon. This follows the news of trademark infringement case filed by British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) last year over SkyDrive branding. Microsoft had initially hinted at fighting BSkyB's claims over SkyDrive branding, but then decided to step back and rebrand their cloud offering. The Redmond giant has registered onedrive.com and has also posted a promotional video on YouTube announcing the upcoming change."
I can hear this now:
"I saved it on one drive."
"Which drive did you save it on?"
"On my one drive."
"Like your C drive?"
If they hadn't dumped all the Live branding, they could have gone after LiveDrive.
Are copyright laws in Europe stricter about customer confusion? Or is this a case where if they can't use it in one country, MS won't use it anywhere?
Twodrive, Threedrive, etc. The possibilities are (literally) endless!
Coming soon...
Celebrity endorsement of One Drive by the eye of Sauron: 'One Drive rules them all! Two thumbs up! If I had Thumbs!'
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Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
So now they will duke it out with Ubuntu?
I'm not sure how this would be confusing a trademark. Does British Sky Broadcasting offer a remote storage solution? This seems almost as silly as if Anderson Windows went after Microsoft for calling their OS "Windows" I know that I always get pissed when I'm stupid enough to order glass panes when I meant to get an OS. I've been to the UK and know many people there. I'm pretty confident that they are smart enough that they won't order online storage when they meant to watch television.
Our NSA Enabled Drive...
The name reminds me of another cloud storage service strongly identified with an OS https://one.ubuntu.com/
I just can't be bothered.
Microsoft should stat using the Roman numeral for One for things like their services and devices. I can't imagine it would upset anyone using the lesser lowe case i for their products.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
That's what they all say, until they reach TwoBillion-OneHundredFortySevenMillion-FourHundredEightyThreeThousand-SixHundredFortyEightDrive.
All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
Twodrive, Threedrive, etc. The possibilities are (literally) endless!
Well,at-least until they hit Googolplex-drive and end up in MAD patent battle with Google.
If my comment didn't sound as good in your head as it did in mine, then I guess we all know who's to blame
I wince every time someone mentions the Palm PC.
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
Everybody knows that since it is Microsoft software, you should wait for threepointonedrive.
I still think it's ridiculous that BSkyB won, given the fact that they don't have a SkyDrive.
OneDrive to Rule them all and in the Darkness bind them.
With all the billions they spend on everything else, they could have at least spent money on a design team to steal the logo and font style from a someplace other than their cloud competition, OwnCloud. This open source project has been around a while and hasn't really done much other branding, but somehow Microsoft decided it would just change the color and go with it. I can just hear Ballmer cheering on the team about how wonderful their marketing department is, yeeeeehaw!
you should wait for threepointonedrive.
I'm waiting for version 3.14159..., aka Pi-in-theSkyDrive
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
something like MicrosoftDrive should be pretty safe
guess they don't want any association with "that" brand... can't say i blame them
Onepe?
I think that A:\ Drive would be more appropriate. About the same speed, aren't they?
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
Three versions of Windows 8 for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven System Management Apps for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine Office Productivity Tools for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One XBox for the Dark Lord on his dark sharepoint site
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
One Cloud to rule them all, One Cloud to find them,
One EULA to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
"directives of moron" is an anagram of Microsoft OneDrive.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
That'll be Minus-TwoBillion-OneHundredFortySevenMillion-FourHundredEightyThreeThousand-SixHundredFortyNineDrive, thank you very much.
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InfiniteImprobabilityDrive, all you files become pictures of whales and petunias.
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There are certain languages that aren't so well suited to certain brands. Not so much because they don't fit but because they don't "sound" nice to an ear that doesn't understand the language. Let's be honest, French sounds as if the product cannot be PG-13, Finnish a bit like it was branded after some Islamist terrorist, German like the product could single-handedly start a hostile takeover of your company, Italian like it's telling you to go to hell in a very nice way and Hungarian like doing so in a less nice way.
Plus, not knowing the language really well can lead to certain ... let's say misunderstandings. Remember the Mitsubishi Montero? Well, you only can if you're living in a Spanish speaking country or the US. Almost everywhere else it was called the Mitsubishi Pajero. Take a wild guess why it was renamed. If your Spanish isn't good enough for a guess, read the Wikipedia page...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Aleph naught drive.
Although personally I prefer the dev null drive.
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
LiveDrive
WindowsDrive
or have they finished burning those brands to the ground?
DriveBy could be another name that will end all these problems for them.
I think Sky have a very reasonable case with this as they provide broadband and cloud email and storage in the UK, so Microsoft is pushing a product that can be directly confused with Sky's products.
You're a temporary arrangement of matter sliding towards oblivion in a cold, uncaring universe
D Drive.
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Although personally I prefer the dev null drive.
ah, I see you've had some experience with Maxtors, too...
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How about One.com making waves? Sky is an ISP (amongst other things), but One.com is a service provider, and a little bit closer to what SkyDrive actually does (though I'm not sure if One.com offers similar cloud storage).
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Twodrive, Threedrive, etc. The possibilities are (literally) endless!
Yes, but only countably endless.
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
They use 64 bit naming.
Bollocks. I've got Dropbox running on my linux boxen, where's the SkyDrive equivalent from Microsoft?
I'am no marketing expert, but why not milk the hell out of the "cloud"?
MS were the main culprits in creating this buzzword, yet, they wont use it?
Welcome to Tech Support in 2014:
user = I've lost my data!
support = Where did you store it?
user = Its in the clouds
support = I see, is it currently raining?
user = Yep
support = You'll need to grab a bucket, and try and collect all those data droplets
user = Got it, Your a genius!
So it fits perfectly into the MS naming scheme, you say?
To be an awful name that fits perfectly into MS naming schemes, it would have been MyDocuments.com