Authored by: kuroshima on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 10:47 AM EDT |
I think a more apt name would be "Windows 8 my desktop" [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 11:16 AM EDT |
"Metro" is used by several hundred different inner-dity train lines
around the planet.
Not that that sort of thing has stopped them before, they like using generic
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 11:24 AM EDT |
How about:
"Button Interface"
That follows MS standard paractice of calling things by generic names that are
easily confused with the term for what they are a type of, to let themselves
believe that they are the only product in the market.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 11:42 AM EDT |
What about List: Lots of Irritating Silly Tiles. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: cjk fossman on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 11:55 AM EDT |
How about combining the names of two of its "better" software
products, Excel and Access.
That would result in Excess.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 01:20 PM EDT |
To keep things honest, it should be called BorgUI... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Steve Martin on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 01:39 PM EDT |
Is the name "Titanic" trademarked?
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"When I say something, I put my name next to it." -- Isaac Jaffe, "Sports Night"[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: betajet on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 01:45 PM EDT |
...because Disco is already dead. It will save time. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 01:47 PM EDT |
Based on what game developers are saying about it. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 02:06 PM EDT |
There is a company here named Metro that provides and services those portable
outhouses you see on construction sites. They would not have approved of MS
tarnishing their reputation by naming a release of Windows after them.
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Authored by: Kilz on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 03:27 PM EDT |
Wts been empty of real innovation and usability for awhile
now.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 04:03 PM EDT |
If we have to come up with a name, I'll pick "Klunky," but I'm not good that
that sort of thing.
Deep speculation is that somebody already owned
the trade mark "Metro"
As someone already mentioned, the term
"Metro" is often used for train or subway based mass transit systems. It's hard
to believe that there would be a conflict there, though, because that would be a
completely different market. The Verge is claiming that an internal Microsoft memo said that the
change came about because of "discussions with an important European partner".
There is a Europe
metro app for Android and a Metro Europe
app for iOS. Both seem to be subway / train guides. I doubt those would be
the problem, though. The iOS product seems to be a scaled-down version of Metro
Maximus, which is world-wide. Microsoft would have pretty much had to know
about that already if they tried to check at all.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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