Microsoft to Change 'SkyDrive' Name Following UK Lawsuit

[JMcEntegart]

Microsoft hasn't offered any information on what the new name might be.

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[Jonathan Barndt]

4real? , now this one is pathetic. I see no connection what so ever. MS should stand its ground with SKY DRIVE. Piss on that Britt.

 

[back_by_demand]

Sky is owned by fatheaded Australian Rupert Murdoch, who runs News Corp, who incidentally also own Fox - headquarters in New York - so wind your neck in before you make yourself look stupid

 

[back_by_demand]

I do of course have a suggestion, re-use the SharePoint brand - SharePoint Pro for business use and SharePoint for everyone else

 

[heero yuy]

actually bskyb is not entirely owned by Murdoch
I believe just before the phone hacking stuff went down he was trying to aqquire all of it but the competition commission (or something) kept saying no

 

[heero yuy]

actually bskyb is not entirely owned by Murdoch
I believe just before the phone hacking stuff went down he was trying to aquire all of it but the competition commission (or something) kept saying no

 

[rwinches]

Used to have...
Might get confused? with something that doesn't exist?
No copyright?
I guess the payment was less than legal fees.

 

[back_by_demand]

39% and is a controlling interest, he has his dirty fingers in lots of pies and scandal follows him everywhere he goes

 

[scythe944]

MS CloudDrive. $20 bucks says that's the new name.

 

[AzureFlash]

Great, now's the time to perpetuate their insufferable "Live" naming scheme and call it "LiveDrive".

 

[rpgplayer]

Please tell me they are gonna rename it Sky.net hahahahaha

 

[back_by_demand]

Scythe, CloudDrive has been done by Amazon

 

[back_by_demand]

If MS are smart, and they can be sometimes, they could buy Dropbox for a snip over $4billion and in one stroke sweep away the name problem and create a virtual monopoly of cloud storage

 

[DRosencraft]

This is so pathetic I don't even know where to begin. As for a new name, I know they've been trying to wind down on the whole "Live" thing, so I presume they won't use that. They'll probably use something simple and straight forward like "Microsoft Drive". That's probably safest - don't need to shoot themselves in the foot by going overboard trying to manufacture an overly complex name.

 

[fyend]

Murdoch, the same guy who has the money and power to make the british PM come to him instead of him coming to the PM.

 

[pjmelect]

Murdoch is actually now a American citizen.

 

[back_by_demand]

Only took citizenship to get round laws on media ownership, he is as bent as a $9 bill

 

[digiex]

They should have named it M$ drive like Google drive.

This is where Google got it right, they just name majority their product Google + "product" or G + "product". It also promote better identity to the owner.

I think M$ managers really don't line Microsoft name, because it is already "micro" and also "soft" at the same time, it's kinda turn off...

 

[back_by_demand]

In light of the XB1 they could push the "one" brand, OneDrive? They would have little problem with previous ownership seeing as it looks to be with a driving instructor. The first whiff of money and it is theirs.

 

[JPNpower]

They did buy skype so they might as well buy dropbox too

 

[Elevory]

What the hell? Seriously?

 

[beayn]

Considering MS's lame attempts at coming up with names in the past - Windows 7 Phone, Windows Internet Explorer, Windows 8 Phone, Windows Live, ... catching the theme?

My guess is the new name will be Windows Drive or Windows Cloud Drive.

SkyDrive was like the only name I thought was decent for a product of MS's.

 

[JPNpower]

Microsoft is lame? I guess, but other's aren't much better, in fact a bit worse.

Mac OS 10.54.9.8721.354973.15.3
Nvidia GTX number alphabet soup
Sony XW2048/TICmne2139ck
Samsung Galaxy everything.

 

[heero yuy]

If MS are smart, and they can be sometimes, they could buy Dropbox for a snip over $4billion and in one stroke sweep away the name problem and create a virtual monopoly of cloud storage

competition commission (or don't Americans have something like that?)
its basicly an independent body that looks at every market and if someone appears to be getting a stranglehold on it (so what they say happens happens because there is no one else) the competition commission will step in and force whoever it is to release said stranglehold