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Microsoft SkyDrive is now OneDrive
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#12Microsoft seems to be making progress in unwinding the habit of convoluted naming schemes. I would love to hear a testimonial from a Microsoft marketing insider as to where the naming trend came from, and how they view it internally.
My most recent encounter was looking into the product currently known as "Microsoft Blend for Visual Studio 2012", previously known as "Microsoft Expression Blend for Visual Studio". I learn from Wikipedia that the article was originally code-named "Sparkle" - it's funny to me because the code name is the name Apple would have launched with, whereas at Microsoft, it's not "customer ready" until they've given it a suitably unwieldy name.
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#13It'll be interesting to see how Canonical will respond, if they will respond. Their service is called 'Ubuntu One' or sometimes just 'One'.
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#14Just so you know, Microsoft was forced to change the name after losing a trademark case in the UK.
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#15OneDrive blog needs a better database! Currently down.
They should have hosted with Amazon instead of Azure.
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#16Semantically, sky wasn't the one needing to go. You don't save memory on the drive (unless they meant the bytes in the microcontroller), maybe on the magnetic disk and not necessarily.
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#17UbunutuOne & OneDrive are quite similar names which might cause confusion for microsoft
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#19I'm surprised MS didn't pick "LiveDrive" to start with. Although I'm sure someone has that trademarked as well, although Microsoft has plenty of cash to buy trademarks. You'd think, though, that they would also have plenty of lawyers to check out and register trademarks before they settle on product names, too.
Perhaps they should mine their own archives and try some alternatives:
Drive.NET, Visual Drive, ActiveDrive, Drive2014, Drive/286, Drive for Workgroups, MS-DRIVE?
Or better still, we know they own MS-DOS so how about "Microsoft Disk (Off-Site)"? Genius!
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#20Just so you know, Microsoft was forced to change the name after losing a trademark case in the UK.
Ugh. I'm going to guess Sky TV?
Lawyers ruin everything.