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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?
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.
Everybody knows that since it is Microsoft software, you should wait for threepointonedrive.
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
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.
InfiniteImprobabilityDrive, all you files become pictures of whales and petunias.
Task Mangler
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.
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.
D Drive.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
Although personally I prefer the dev null drive.
ah, I see you've had some experience with Maxtors, too...
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