Microsoft Will Have To Rename SkyDrive 274
SmartAboutThings writes "A month ago, Microsoft was involved in a legal battle in the United Kingdom, when the court found that there was a conflict between Microsoft's SkyDrive and a trademark owned by the British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB). Back then, the UK court ruled that Microsoft was infringing the BSkyB's trademark. And now we have confirmation that Microsoft will be forced to change the SkyDrive brand name. This is quite a big branding issue for Microsoft. What are they going to call it? DriveSky? And chances are that the name change will be worldwide and not only in the United Kingdom."
They should call it "BitBucket" (Score:5, Funny)
Data in, nothing out.
How about... (Score:3, Funny)
MeTooDrive or Me2Drive. Since Microsoft only copies things that others do at this point, they should just grab the Me2 prefix to replace the G or i from all of Google's and Apple's products.
best marketing name is .... (Score:5, Funny)
What are they going to call it? (Score:4, Funny)
Synonyms: blast, breath, breeze, draft, heavens, ozone, puff, sky, stratosphere, troposphere, ventilation, waft, whiff, wind, zephyr
ZephyrDrive, PuffDrive, BreezeDrive
Easy to fix (Score:2, Funny)
Fixed with one easy change of letter: SpyDrive.
Confusion (Score:5, Funny)
How many Microsoft SkyDrive users will be confused by the rename of this product and switch to Dropbox?
Both.
Re:FlyDrive would be a better name (Score:2, Funny)
Sorry, but on my machine, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, Q, R, S, Y, and Z, are already in use.
Instead, they should make it A:\ -- and when it goes down for some reason, the error message can be:
Not ready reading drive A
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Re:FlyDrive would be a better name (Score:5, Funny)
How about Drive Eh? For our Canadian friends.
So it would be:
Not ready reading drive Eh
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Re:Not an exact name but close (Score:3, Funny)
No one in UK apart from a stupid judge and a bunch of opportunistic lawyers confuses Sky from BSkyB with SkyDrive from Microsoft. Perhaps it should change to easyDrive as no one would confuse a cloud service with a car hire company either.
Re:FlyDrive would be a better name (Score:4, Funny)
Then it conflict with my floppy drive... :)
Re:Skynet anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
Don't you mean Sky.NET?