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Microsoft is going to have to rename its SkyDrive cloud storage service after agreeing to submit to a British court's ruling over ownership of the brand name. British Sky Broadcasting Group, the European satellite broadcasting arm of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, took on Redmond over the rights to the SkyDrive name, pointing …
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They don't but because BSkyB offer telecommunication products and services that put them in the same category as cloud products its enough for people to believe that SkyDrive is a BSkyB product.
In fairness to Microsoft BSkyB and Sky TV as a trademark is barely heard of outside the UK, Sky's Internet offering's even less so and after the Edge fiasco it seemed trademark's based on a common word weren't really enforceable.
"Sky TV as a trademark is barely heard of outside the UK"
How long is it since you were last in Germany? have a look at www.sky.de anyway.
I believe Italy has a bit of Murdoch too. You'd have thought Berlusconi might have put them off, but apparently not. You could try www.sky.it
Maybe others too; someone's annual report would cover it, but I'm too lazy to work out which piece of the empire would have the details (it doesn't seem to be in the BSkyB report, but that's no big surprise).
"Anyway anyone uses microsoft products (and isn't' some whack job fundamentalist) and has skydrive know it shits on the shit you get from other vendors."
Can you explain for people who aren't tied into the Microsoft treadmill, what the advantages of Skydrive are over every other online storage locker out there?
(Also yay to Reg comments for inserting random newlines everywhere. This paragraph inserted solely to prevent it.)
Can you explain for people who aren't tied into the Microsoft treadmill, what the advantages of Skydrive are over every other online storage locker out there?
I haven't investigated in depth but there's some reasonable integration with the Office products and there's no undesirable chatter from the client like there is with DropBox.
I wouldn't say it was notably superior from what I have seen so far but it's not obviously deficient.
SeeDrive
I think that would be good - See because it sounds like C:\ and cannot be seen - a complete oxymoron that will baffle users in the way only MS can! They could even bring back good old Abort, Fail, Retry for when it goes tits up and set the website background colour to a nice deep blue when the servers go down!