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[Burned Phoenix]

Microsoft is going to rename its SkyDrive cloud storage service to OneDrive.

 

Microsoft has set up a OneDrive Preview web site with the title "OneDrive is coming soon", an introductory video of the same has been uploaded on YouTube, and a new OneDrive Blog has also been setup.

 

 

Microsoft took this decision after facing legal problems with the name SkyDrive when the satellite television provider Sky sued Microsoft for trademark infringement.

[pcHuntqwerty]

Microsoft took this decision after facing legal problems with the name SkyDrive when the satellite television provider Sky sued Microsoft for trademark infringement.

 

LOL @ Microsoft

 

 

 

 

 

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[FalseAgent]

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Okay, people are seriously clueless about trademark IP laws.

trademark infringements arise from products using similar names within the same industry/sector. All those products mentioned are not even in the same category. And that second last one doesn't even exist anymore.

No problem here, and, LOL @ techgeek for, well, being such geeks.

[pcHuntqwerty]

I like your sarcasm FalseAgent but I posted those photos as a joke. I knew that two companies from different industries can use the same name. Windows Vista is the perfect example.

[j4f]

There is actually a company that doesn't like Microsoft's new name. 

They don't have a product named OneDrive. But their name is one.com, and they offer a similar service. 
Danish article: http://translate.goo...loud-navn-56013

[P.McGinley]

OneDrive makes sense. Microsoft has OneNote and Xbox One.