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Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows

Posted by samzenpus on from the a-rose-by-any-other-name dept.

DroidJason1 writes Microsoft is killing off the "Windows Phone" name in favor of Windows. The company also plans to drop the "Nokia" name from handsets in favor of just "Lumia." These details were revealed in a leaked memo. We've already begun seeing these changes in recent advertisements from Microsoft and it makes perfect sense seeing as how Microsoft is shifting towards one operating system to rule them all.

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  1. KIlling off the Microsoft Store Name Too by l0ungeb0y · · Score: 3, Funny

    In favor of "Blatant Attempt at Ripping-Off the Apple Store" Not as catchy, but accurate

    1. Re:KIlling off the Microsoft Store Name Too by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 5, Funny

      Microsoft has been killing off the Windows Phone brand name for years now -- by releasing Windows Phones.

  2. Miley puts ON clothes? by raymorris · · Score: 4, Funny

    Miley CHANGES clothes? I thought she just took them off.

  3. Doesnt matter what they call it now... by rjejr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next week we'll all be running Microsoft Minecraft on our Minecraft Phones and using Minecraft Office.

  4. I've got a great idea by viperidaenz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's buy a brand, then phase out the name of the brand.
    What could go wrong?