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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.

3 of 352 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Yup. That sounds perfect. by neoritter · · Score: 1, Informative

    Why is that Microsoft get's all the negative flak for stupid people?

  2. Re:Abject brand mismanagement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    People ***HATE*** "Windows". Windows is associated with work, pain, crazy difficulties, nerds and viruses. The brand name has negative value.

    If you ignore half a billion relatively satisfied Windows 7 users, sure.

  3. Re:Abject brand mismanagement by HalAtWork · · Score: 3, Informative

    Default Linux installs just work, Windows needs a lot of drivers, patching & reboots, and helper apps, to even be useful.

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