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I don't care what they call it, as long as they fix it. It works great most of the time, but occasionally on my surface I get a message like "40k of disk space needed" to open a 40k document. And it simply won't open. Sometimes on my laptop it won't save. And yes I have 45 gig of space on the device. Still using Google drive for most stuff.
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.
I'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…
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Microsoft 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 l…
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Not unlike OSX, then?
The "X" means 10. The previous version was MacOS 9.
Interesting to see that they have gone for minimal Microsoft branding on the site and not on a .live.com sub-domain. I wonder if this will continue once launched....
Just so you know, Microsoft was forced to change the name after losing a trademark case in the UK.
Microsoft's marketing department is just crazy. How many times did MSN Messenger get rebranded? Photo gallery? Their webmail thing?
It's crazy. When they have a major platform, they're rock solid on the name (like the Office Word/Excel/whatever) but they change icons and GUIs willy-nilly.
When they have a smaller, supporting platform, they get complete ADD on the name.
When they have a developer tool? They just give it an ungoogleable description that doesn't even count as a name. Their SQL Server is called SQL Server. Their common language runtime is called the common language runtime. Their MVC framework is called MVC.
Microsoft sucks at naming things. I think XBox is the last brand they created that they actually properly curated.
They should have named it this anyway, it makes me immediately think of OneNote, which is an MS app that TONS of non-power/non-technical users know about. If you told someone you could put your notes in OneNote and it backs them up to OneDrive that would probably make a lot of sense to most people.
Microsoft is never one to leave well enough alone, so I look forward to OneOffice, OneStudio, and WindowsOne.