Microsoft nearly lost Windows?

[Yousuf Khan]

As we know Microsoft sued Lindows for its name being too close to
Microsoft's Windows. It turns out that Lindows in turn challenged
Microsoft's right to use the term Windows, since it is generic. So the
result? Microsoft ended up paying Lindows $20 million and Lindows will
change its name to Linspire. Good way to make cash from Microsoft: Microsoft
sues you, then it pays you. I doubt Microsoft will try to challenge
infringements on its Windows name anymore, because it might just lose it
next time.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=75&e=1&u=/nf/20040720/tc_nf/25932

Yousuf Khan

 

[CJT]

As we know Microsoft sued Lindows for its name being too close to
Microsoft's Windows. It turns out that Lindows in turn challenged
Microsoft's right to use the term Windows, since it is generic. So the
result? Microsoft ended up paying Lindows $20 million and Lindows will
change its name to Linspire. Good way to make cash from Microsoft: Microsoft
sues you, then it pays you. I doubt Microsoft will try to challenge
infringements on its Windows name anymore, because it might just lose it
next time.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=75&e=1&u=/nf/20040720/tc_nf/25932

Yousuf Khan

It's tempting.

Rindows, anyone?

 

[Rupert Pigott]

It's tempting.

Rindows, anyone?

Go for the throat : "My Windows".

Then ask them where they got the "WIMP" phrase from that their
marketroids liked to use at the time.

Cheers,
Rupert

 

[Yousuf Khan]

It's tempting.

Rindows, anyone?

Is that the Chinese version of Lindows?

Linspire should really push the envelope and call its next OS, Linspire
Windows.

Microsoft might only be able to enforce the trademark to the name "MS
Windows" or "Microsoft Windows" from now on, but not simply just "Windows".
Linspire could contend that the "Linspire" in "Linspire Windows" makes it
different than "MS Windows". This one might be a little harder to get away
with though.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Hank Oredson]

It's tempting.

Rindows, anyone?

"ViewPorts".

--

... Hank

http://horedson.home.att.net
http://w0rli.home.att.net

 

[Norm Dresner]

Then ask them where they got the "WIMP" phrase from that their
marketroids liked to use at the time.

Windows - Icons - Menus - Pointers IIRC it comes from Xerox PARC in the
early '80s

Norm

 

[Yousuf Khan]

"ViewPorts".

Portholes?

Yousuf Khan

 

[Rupert Pigott]

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Windows - Icons - Menus - Pointers IIRC it comes from Xerox PARC in the
early '80s

.... Precisely. However it was widely applied. I even saw it used to
describe systems for the BBC Micro.

Cheers,
Rupert

 

[Bill Davidsen]

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Windows - Icons - Menus - Pointers IIRC it comes from Xerox PARC in the
early '80s

I don't think they try to claim it, it's a common technical term like rpm.

 

[George Macdonald]

I don't think they try to claim it, it's a common technical term like rpm.

Uhh, they already claimed Windows... and anything that sounds like it?
Lawyers need to get rich too you know.;-) Take a look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/library/toolbar/3.0/trademarks/en-us.mspx.
Autoroute®?... I wonder what the French think of that?
Bookshelf®?... absurd!
Entourage®?... not only the French here!
Exhibition(TM)?
Links® in relation to a golf game? What *will* the R&A think?
....... and on and on.

Remember this is the company that tried to steal Java and proprietarize it.

Rgds, George Macdonald

"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??

 

[hu-mi yu]

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Rindows, anyone?

I like Windoz (tm), but if you are really tired of
crawling in the windows your computer, why not
install doors (tm)?

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Though you see through me,
I am not a window,
And what you see
is only a reflection of yourself.

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[Strontium]

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Yousuf Khan stood up at show-n-tell, in
[email protected], and said:

As we know Microsoft sued Lindows for its name being too close to
Microsoft's Windows. It turns out that Lindows in turn challenged
Microsoft's right to use the term Windows, since it is generic. So the
result? Microsoft ended up paying Lindows $20 million and Lindows will
change its name to Linspire. Good way to make cash from Microsoft:
Microsoft sues you, then it pays you. I doubt Microsoft will try to
challenge infringements on its Windows name anymore, because it might
just lose it
next time.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=75&e=1&u=/nf/20040720/tc_nf/
25932

Yousuf Khan

$20M is chump-change, for MS.

 

[JK]

Doors? That doesn't sound so intriguing. A more hitech sounding name
is portals. How about openings?

 

[JK]

How about an operating system called periscopes?

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I like Windoz (tm), but if you are really tired of
crawling in the windows your computer, why not
install doors (tm)?

- ----------------------------------------------

Though you see through me,
I am not a window,
And what you see
is only a reflection of yourself.

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[MyndPhlyp]

Doors? That doesn't sound so intriguing. A more hitech sounding name
is portals. How about openings?

Doors doesn't sound completely out of place.

Instead of playing one of M$'s jingles when Doors starts up, it could be
replaced with a pirated MP3 of "People Are Strange" and fit right in with
the digit heads. If the user changes their desktop color scheme, it could be
followed with the musical snip "I see a red door and I want to paint it
black ..."

The possibilities just boggle the mynd.

 

[Alexander Grigoriev]

"orifices"

Doors? That doesn't sound so intriguing. A more hitech sounding name
is portals. How about openings?

 

[MyndPhlyp]

"orifices"

And instead of the terms "GPF", "crash" or "BSOD", it would be called
"wrecked 'em".

 

[Roger Hunt]

"orifices"

"Arseholes"

 

[CJT]

"orifices"
"sphincters"

 

[Roger Hunt]

"orifices"

"sphincters"
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The idea of "sphincters" OS failing doesn't bear thinking about.