A potential trademark dispute has forced Microsoft to drop the Metro name for Windows 8's blocky, tile-based interface.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19108952
Okay, in all seriousness, since it resembles the Speed Dial on most browsers, and it's sort of like the Xbox dashboard, they could try combining those in some way to come up with a new name.
ERMAHGERD SPERDBERD!
Hahaha no.
Quoting Wizard1956, reply 1What works for America doesnt always go over so well elsewhere.Chevrolet had problems marketing the Chevy Nova automobile in Latin America. Since no va means "it doesn't go" in Spanish, the oft-repeated story goes, Latin American car buyers shunned the car, forcing Chevrolet to embarrassedly pull the car out of the market.
Where the hell do you get this stuff?
Certainly not from snopes! http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
Even though the story is false, I'm sure there have been a number of similar if less popular examples.
How about Windows Retro?
Graphically, they are going backwards.
Good find, jackswift85. The source I used never claimed it to be true, just oft-repeated.
We already have plenty of four-letter names for Windows 8.
Windows the User Slayer. 'cause we're killing ourselves laughing at it.
Yeah, Purposefully And Intentionally Niggling
A large company like MS would not give up a brand they had spent a lot of time and money creating. It would fight tooth and nail to keep it (and win). The only reason to give up a brand, if the brand is not worth keeping.... Still nothing has changed, it's the same beast, no matter what you call it.
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difference is that they won't be in germany.
windows tube?
So Metro Germany is a stay-at-home firm that only sues from its armchair if the mob using the Metro name is an international corporation and it'll give them oodles of free publicity?
Hmmm, that's pretty gutless as far as I'm concerned. Yup, they gotta get off their arses and broaden their law suit horizons... come to Oz, even, and sue some Metro name users here. Personally, I'd like to see Metro Germany sue the local brothel with the same name and put the owners out of business [could be just the business opportunity/opening I've been looking for] permanently.
Thing is, if the truth be known, Microsoft is ditching the Metro name because they made it shitty.... it didn't stink before, but now it does. So yeah, this law suit thing is just a smokescreen to distract everyone while they come up with a new name... and the excuse will be along the lines that Metro didn't have enough letters in it, or something.
At the end of the day, though, Windows 8 will come out with a butt ugly tile interface and alienate millions of users worldwide. I will buy it for the low price of $39.95 because, thanks to Stardock and Winstep, I've figured a way to use it just like I do Win7. Maybe a few others will upgrade as well, but the majority will stay away in droves because the low price will not be a great enough lure and new interface will be too great a departure from what they're familiar with.
isnt april over yet
@ alaknebs and zigzag, I'm just having a bit of fun with this so please don't take it too seriously.
I guess I found it too incredible that Microsoft would be changing the name of its new interface on the basis of Metro Germany filing a law suit against it for using a fairly generic name, so yeah, I decided to poke a bit of fun.