OneDrive Is Microsoft's Rebranded Name For SkyDrive 197
SmartAboutThings writes with news that Microsoft finally figured out what to rename SkyDrive, after losing rights to the trademark last year. From the article: "Microsoft has just announced that SkyDrive, their cloud storage service, will be renamed to OneDrive very soon. This follows the news of trademark infringement case filed by British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) last year over SkyDrive branding. Microsoft had initially hinted at fighting BSkyB's claims over SkyDrive branding, but then decided to step back and rebrand their cloud offering. The Redmond giant has registered onedrive.com and has also posted a promotional video on YouTube announcing the upcoming change."
It'll be fun to watch. (Score:2)
Re:It'll be fun to watch. (Score:5, Funny)
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That's what they all say, until they reach TwoBillion-OneHundredFortySevenMillion-FourHundredEightyThreeThousand-SixHundredFortyEightDrive.
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That'll be Minus-TwoBillion-OneHundredFortySevenMillion-FourHundredEightyThreeThousand-SixHundredFortyNineDrive, thank you very much.
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Aleph naught drive.
Although personally I prefer the dev null drive.
Re:It'll be fun to watch. (Score:5, Funny)
Although personally I prefer the dev null drive.
ah, I see you've had some experience with Maxtors, too...
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Is "Death Star" another name for "2GB Seagate"?
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Re:It'll be fun to watch. (Score:4, Insightful)
There are certain languages that aren't so well suited to certain brands. Not so much because they don't fit but because they don't "sound" nice to an ear that doesn't understand the language. Let's be honest, French sounds as if the product cannot be PG-13, Finnish a bit like it was branded after some Islamist terrorist, German like the product could single-handedly start a hostile takeover of your company, Italian like it's telling you to go to hell in a very nice way and Hungarian like doing so in a less nice way.
Plus, not knowing the language really well can lead to certain ... let's say misunderstandings. Remember the Mitsubishi Montero? Well, you only can if you're living in a Spanish speaking country or the US. Almost everywhere else it was called the Mitsubishi Pajero [wikipedia.org]. Take a wild guess why it was renamed. If your Spanish isn't good enough for a guess, read the Wikipedia page...
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That's like the MR2 sports car - in French you'd pronounce that "M R deux" which is quite a lot like "merde".
So Toyota made a car for the French market and called it Shit, so you have to be careful with even simple combinations of letters and numbers in a code.
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This is supposed to be News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters, and the number of people who didn't get the "TwoBillion-OneHundredFortySevenMillion-FourHundredEightyThreeThousand-SixHundredFortyEightDrive" joke is rather depressing.
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Thanks for explaining the joke. This is the max size for signed 32-bit int? (or rather, one over)
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Then they can just start counting in German.
Yes, while we're at it, let's call it OneDriver, or in German, EinFuhrer. Nobody will dispute this trademark!
Re:It'll be fun to watch. (Score:5, Funny)
LiveDrive
WindowsDrive
or have they finished burning those brands to the ground?
DriveBy could be another name that will end all these problems for them.
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How about McDrive? That sounds catchy, don't you think?
Re:It'll be fun to watch. (Score:5, Funny)
D Drive.
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Tsk. You don't understand.
It's not a failed product.
It's a failed marketing campaign.
Clearly rebadging the steaming pile of schite is the way to go. :P
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I consider all online drives to be overhyped steaming piles of shit. What's the functional difference between these so-called "cloud" services and an old fashioned FTP server?
Bugger all but branding.
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And so? An old fashioned FTP server was a useful thing. Onedrive and Dropbox and etc are just as useful.
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Well, except that it isn't a steaming pile. It is a solid service. Why would you say it isn't - besides what must be some insane Microsoft hating?
Well, their decision to monitor your files, even private ones, is beyond obnoxious.
http://wmpoweruser.com/microso... [wmpoweruser.com]
I certainly don't need Microsoft snooping around in my files, and potentially revoking not only skydrive (onedrive?) access but locking me out of a bunch of other stuff simply because something in some private file triggered some filter.
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Twodrive, Threedrive, etc. The possibilities are (literally) endless!
Well,at-least until they hit Googolplex-drive and end up in MAD patent battle with Google.
Re:It'll be fun to watch. (Score:5, Funny)
Everybody knows that since it is Microsoft software, you should wait for threepointonedrive.
Re:It'll be fun to watch. (Score:5, Funny)
you should wait for threepointonedrive.
I'm waiting for version 3.14159..., aka Pi-in-theSkyDrive
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something like MicrosoftDrive should be pretty safe
guess they don't want any association with "that" brand... can't say i blame them
Directives of Moron (Score:5, Funny)
"directives of moron" is an anagram of Microsoft OneDrive.
Re:Directives of Moron (Score:5, Funny)
That's still better than some of the anagrams of Microsoft SkyDrive:
Defrock My Visitors
Frisky Coder's Vomit
Mortify Dick Servos
Voids First Mockery
Modify Risk Vectors
Cover Dorky Misfits
Ivory Serfdom Stick
It Forks My Divorces
Re:It'll be fun to watch. (Score:5, Funny)
InfiniteImprobabilityDrive, all you files become pictures of whales and petunias.
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Twodrive, Threedrive, etc. The possibilities are (literally) endless!
Yes, but only countably endless.
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Coming from the company that neamed its third Xbox the Xbox One, I'm actually surprised they didn't christen it the SixDrive. It'd be great for ads:
"Xbox network integration, so you can invite a friend over to Xbone with your SixDrive!"
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And if you don't have an X-Box One, you can run it in Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.
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So:
Microsoft Windows, yes.
Candy Crush, yes.
BSkyB yes.
SkyOne yes.
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Well, if you can brand name a fruit that has been a food staple for millennia...
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My Computer, One Drive? (Score:5, Funny)
I can hear this now:
"I saved it on one drive."
"Which drive did you save it on?"
"On my one drive."
"Like your C drive?"
If they hadn't dumped all the Live branding, they could have gone after LiveDrive [livedrive.com].
Are copyright laws in Europe stricter about customer confusion? Or is this a case where if they can't use it in one country, MS won't use it anywhere?
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A better name for SkyDrive would be SpyDrive.
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And maybe that's the actual reason they decided to dump that name. The ways it could be "misread" are just too many.
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Word,
Office,
SQL Server,
System Center,
and many others...including the name "Windows"
It is amazing as if Bill Gates had a dog and named him "Microsoft Woof".
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Microsoft did have a dog named Rover, originally in Microsoft Bob but later used in Windows XP's search.
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Before Microsoft, there was IBM.
Personal Computer
Disk Operating System (predates PC-DOS/MS-DOS - ran on 360s)
Operating System/Multiple Fixed Partitions
(and a batch of other OS-related things)
Time-Sharing Option
A Programming Language
Programming Language One
Many of those things are better known by acronyms (and what do you think their database DB2 stands for?).
Re:My Computer, One Drive? (Score:5, Funny)
I can hear this now:
"I saved it on one drive."
"Which drive did you save it on?"
"On my one drive."
"Like your C drive?"
"No, my One Drive to rule them all, One Drive to find them,
One Drive to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Microsoft where the Shadows lie."
MWUHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
There, now it's been properly Slashdotified.
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It's probably more that they realised the only thing anyone uses OneDrive for is uploading XBox One videos direct from their console, so it makes sense to capitalise on that only real popular use for it.
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I deal with this every day...
"Can you click on the link to Lync [wikipedia.org] and join the meeting?"
"Hang on, I'll past a link into Lync."
Try saying those out loud. Yes, it's annoying. Damned retards in their naming department.
I can just see it... (Score:5, Funny)
Coming soon...
Celebrity endorsement of One Drive by the eye of Sauron: 'One Drive rules them all! Two thumbs up! If I had Thumbs!'
Enter our One Draw to win! Secret decoder rings for the first nine (human) winners!
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Sorry, no. It's been established long ago that the Nazgul work in the legal department of IBM.
Ubuntu One (Score:4, Insightful)
So now they will duke it out with Ubuntu?
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trademark infringement British Sky Broadcating (Score:2)
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It's a part of the Murdoch empire, which had an ISP when mosaic was the web browser of choice, so there's probably something like that in there.
OneDrive stands for ... (Score:5, Funny)
ONE drive (Score:1)
to rule them all !!!
Ubuntu One? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Ubuntu One? (Score:5, Informative)
There's also http://one.com/ [one.com] which offers a cloud storage service.
It would be hilarious if Microsoft was forced to change the name again *fingers crossed*
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They have an adequately big war-chest to get their trademarks under normal circumstances.
Lindows wasn't defeated in court; they were paid to change to Linspire.
There used to be a feminist bookstore in my city called Amazon Books. It got a very nice cash influx about the time it changed its name.
I seem to remember somebody using something confusingly similar to Cisco's IOS, and an application of money seems to have settled that.
use the Roman numeral (Score:5, Funny)
BSkyB didn't even have a SkyDrive (Score:3)
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Oh it wasn't BskyB who got cranky.
Microsoft wanted to own Sky and tried booting BskyB off their trademark.
After Murdoch sunk them with more lawyers, Microsoft is going for a loftier target: The number one.
Just you wait. There will be Microsoft lawyers kicking down accountants and kindergarten doors demanding royalties any minute now.
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You can't take the sky from me....
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Always struck me an odd line. Imprisonment must surely count as taking the sky from someone.
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Good call.
"The sky" isn't just the physical sky. The lyric is a metaphor.
Indeed, but the point is that you can't is a statement of defiance rather than an assertion of impossibility.
Obligatory Tolkienism (Score:3)
OneDrive to Rule them all and in the Darkness bind them.
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Microsoft doesn't use bind, silly. They use MS DNS Server.
Um...
"The bind function associates a local address with a socket."
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-u... [microsoft.com]
wait for the next version (Score:2)
the first version always sucks. wait for TwoDrive.
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I'm pondering waiting at least for ThreeDriveElevenForWorkgroups.
Wow, how original (Score:2, Insightful)
With all the billions they spend on everything else, they could have at least spent money on a design team to steal the logo and font style from a someplace other than their cloud competition, OwnCloud. This open source project has been around a while and hasn't really done much other branding, but somehow Microsoft decided it would just change the color and go with it. I can just hear Ballmer cheering on the team about how wonderful their marketing department is, yeeeeehaw!
So does this mean Skype becomes..... (Score:3)
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The One Cloud (Score:5, Interesting)
Three versions of Windows 8 for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven System Management Apps for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine Office Productivity Tools for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One XBox for the Dark Lord on his dark sharepoint site
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
One Cloud to rule them all, One Cloud to find them,
One EULA to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
Ubuntu One (Score:2)
What about Ubuntu One cloud Storage? (Score:2)
https://one.ubuntu.com/ [ubuntu.com]
Does Microsoft for some reason want to keep on using names that are similar to what others are already using?
Ubuntu One Drive! (Score:2)
They can call it what they like - don't use it (Score:2)
Unless you don't give a damn about the confidentiality of your data.
If you don't fancy setting up your own server at home, try http://owncloud.org/ [owncloud.org]
Advantage is clients available for many platforms, including Android.
If that's too hard, and/or you want 24/7/365, pick a hosting solution in the country of your choice.
Difficult to know which one to pick, tho'.
CloudDrive, maybe? (Score:2)
I'am no marketing expert, but why not milk the hell out of the "cloud"?
MS were the main culprits in creating this buzzword, yet, they wont use it?
Welcome to Tech Support in 2014:
user = I've lost my data!
support = Where did you store it?
user = Its in the clouds
support = I see, is it currently raining?
user = Yep
support = You'll need to grab a bucket, and try and collect all those data droplets
user = Got it, Your a genius!
They couldn't name it after the Sky cloud offering (Score:2)
So they named it after the Canoncial cloud offering, which is also called "One"? What's next "Dropship" maybe "MineCloud"? It's like they hired some clickbait spammer to name projects.
Bad Name (Score:2)
MicroDrive (Score:2)
Almost as catchy as... (Score:2)
Bing!
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I wince every time someone mentions the Palm PC.
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I think that A:\ Drive would be more appropriate. About the same speed, aren't they?
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Because you may rest assured that MS will not abuse its superior position in the market and somehow cram it down the throat of anyone using any kind of MS product but rely entirely on the superiority of the product.
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Err how exactly?
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Bollocks. I've got Dropbox running on my linux boxen, where's the SkyDrive equivalent from Microsoft?
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What's a boxen, and how hard was it to install Linux on it?
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Dropbox is available on Android.
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and even Google's vaunted Drive services aren't.
Google says that a Linux Google Drive client will come.....someday.
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So it fits perfectly into the MS naming scheme, you say?
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So it fits perfectly into the MS naming scheme, you say?
To be an awful name that fits perfectly into MS naming schemes, it would have been MyDocuments.com
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From my understanding, it was Microsoft that was the bully here, and tried to take the trademark from BSkyB in court, but lost.