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Microsoft has dropped "Metro", the name given to the squaretastic user interface for Windows 8 and Windows Phone, claiming it was just a code name all along. Litigation, though, may be the real reason as it seems the word may be owned by a European company or individual that objected to its use. The change comes late in the …
Metro was a nice, catchy name. Not checking for trademarks and coming to some agreement with others holding that trademark before naming the fscking software is just... unprofessional.
I'm really curios if MS has been more careful with checking for other trademarks and patents in Windows 8 or if the thing will be shot down within a week.
"Metro" IS not a nice catchy name....
It fucking sucks... like a battery converted shopping trolly becomes a green electric eco friendly car kind of sucks.
It's like being 14 and finding someone has put a hand full of sand in your jar of Vaseline....
It's just fucking TRAGIC - that's that the name "Metro" is...
Copyrighting that name? Metro has always been used as an abreviation of Metropolis.... and spewed forth as a trendy conjunctive like Metrosexual or something...
Or as descripitive terms for "city" type transport..... "The Met"
Quick a new name and an catchy abbreviation for it.... I know - "People Over Xs" or POX for short.
Hmm back to the sandy Vaseline....
"Not checking for trademarks and coming to some agreement with others holding that trademark before naming the fscking software is just... unprofessional."
Now don't be mean here. MS had promised this company a /free/ copy of WIn8, its not their fault that this company doesn't want anything to do with it.
Don't laugh, but I had an "All-aggro" way back in the 80s, and it was a very comfortable, (hydrogas suspension) nippy, (I had the 1.6) car. The slightly squared off, or was that rounded square? steering wheel was actually fine to use. (Mine was leather too.)
It did use about half a gallon of oil every week, and obviously smoked like a trooper, but good while it lasted... :o)
Agreed about Leyland cars generally though. They really were shit.
AC, for obvious reasons!
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