Microsoft SkyDrive is now OneDrive

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Post by naren87 » Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 2:26 PM UTC

Microsoft SkyDrive is now OneDrive
preview.onedrive.com

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#2

Post by pavlov » Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 2:43 PM UTC

Xbox One, OneDrive -- are we looking at Windows One next?

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#3

Post by jostmey » Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 2:44 PM UTC

Dear Microsoft. Renaming something does not make it better. It just confuses your customers.

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Post by jeremysmyth » Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 2:44 PM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #2

Xbox One, OneDrive -- are we looking at Windows One next?

And then two.

Then three.

Then three point one one.

Then ninety-five.

Then ninety-eight.

Then two thousand.

Perfect numerical naming convention!

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Post by theg2 » Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 2:46 PM UTC

What a disaster of PR naming. The service is great but the constant rebranding is going to confuse customers. I guess ill see an app update on my Lumina soon too.

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Post by ben336 » Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 2:46 PM UTC

jostmey wrote: post #3

Dear Microsoft. Renaming something does not make it better. It just confuses your customers.

they're legally required to rename it: http://gizmodo.com/microsoft-has-to-change-skydrives-name-be... (Edit: technically it didn't get quite that far. They're preemptively renaming to settle a lawsuit that they would lose. Regardless it remains hilarious how much trouble Microsoft has naming things. Even when they have good names like Skydrive, they turn out to be bad ones).

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Post by lini » Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 2:46 PM UTC

jostmey wrote: post #3

Dear Microsoft. Renaming something does not make it better. It just confuses your customers.

They had no choice - British Sky Broadcasting Group owns the trademark and forced the name change about 6 months ago.

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Post by JoeAltmaier » Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 2:47 PM UTC

jeremysmyth wrote: post #4

pavlov wrote: post #2

Xbox One, OneDrive -- are we looking at Windows One next?

And then two. Then three. Then three point one one. Then ninety-five. Then ninety-eight. Then two thousand. Perfect numerical naming convention!

I like calculator numbering - the bigger the number, the lamer the calculator.

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Post by RossM » Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 2:48 PM UTC

jostmey wrote: post #3

Dear Microsoft. Renaming something does not make it better. It just confuses your customers.

This renaming was triggered by a trademark issue - http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/27/5349830/microsoft-onedrive...

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Post by freditup » Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 2:52 PM UTC

What a loss for Microsoft - 'SkyDrive' definitely has more of an appeal than 'OneDrive', and it'll surely be confusing to some people to see the name changed. And it seems like a case they should have been able to win. Sometimes it seems as if all of Europe just loves to mess with Microsoft.