Just keep calling it Metro
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I have been trying every which way to avoid calling the new Windows 8 user experience and applications by the code name Microsoft used, Metro. But I’m giving up. I mean “Windows Store Apps”, “Microsoft Design Language”, “New Windows Experience”, or whatever BS ways they’ve been coming up with to try to refer to this stuff just doesn’t cut it. Sure they have some kind of trademark problem with the name Metro. So why not come up with some catchy easy to use name to replace it? Absent that I’m going back to using the name Metro.
It’s their trademark problem, not mine.
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I have been trying every which way to avoid calling the new Windows 8 user experience and applications by the code name Microsoft used, Metro. But I’m giving up. I mean “Windows Store Apps”, “Microsoft Design Language”, “New Windows Experience”, or whatever BS ways they’ve been coming up with to try to refer to this stuff just doesn’t cut it. Sure they have some kind of trademark problem with the name Metro. So why not come up with some catchy easy to use name to replace it? Absent that I’m going back to using the name Metro.
It’s their trademark problem, not mine.
Yeah Bouy!
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I have been trying every which way to avoid calling the new Windows 8 user experience and applications by the code name Microsoft used, Metro. But I’m giving up. I mean “Windows Store Apps”, “Microsoft Design Language”, “New Windows Experience”, or whatever BS ways they’ve been coming up with to try to refer to this stuff just doesn’t cut it. Sure they have some kind of trademark problem with the name Metro. So why not come up with some catchy easy to use name to replace it? Absent that I’m going back to using the name Metro.
It’s their trademark problem, not mine.
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It’s their trademark problem, not mine.
I agree, but I can see it must be annoying for bloggers, reviewers and others that have to write articles about it. I was reading the "Windows 8 Cheat Sheet" link you posted yesterday and the guy kept calling it TileWorld. This bothered me so much I ended up just skimming quickly through the article :^) Soren Madsen
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I have been trying every which way to avoid calling the new Windows 8 user experience and applications by the code name Microsoft used, Metro. But I’m giving up. I mean “Windows Store Apps”, “Microsoft Design Language”, “New Windows Experience”, or whatever BS ways they’ve been coming up with to try to refer to this stuff just doesn’t cut it. Sure they have some kind of trademark problem with the name Metro. So why not come up with some catchy easy to use name to replace it? Absent that I’m going back to using the name Metro.
It’s their trademark problem, not mine.
Terrence Dorsey wrote:
It’s their trademark problem, not mine.
Have any details of what went wrong escaped Redmond yet? Specifically, did they: 0) Not bother to check for competing claims until after starting to talk publicly and find Metro AG unwilling to make concessions. 1) Check but assume that a GUI and a retail chain were different enough that there wasn't a problem until Metro AG's lawyers sent a nastygram. 2) Know about Metro AG, enter into negotiations, and go public on the assumption that they'd be able to make a deal; only for things to fall apart at the last minute. 3) Something else.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Terrence Dorsey wrote:
It’s their trademark problem, not mine.
Have any details of what went wrong escaped Redmond yet? Specifically, did they: 0) Not bother to check for competing claims until after starting to talk publicly and find Metro AG unwilling to make concessions. 1) Check but assume that a GUI and a retail chain were different enough that there wasn't a problem until Metro AG's lawyers sent a nastygram. 2) Know about Metro AG, enter into negotiations, and go public on the assumption that they'd be able to make a deal; only for things to fall apart at the last minute. 3) Something else.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
I find the state of patents more disturbing and to think that a Retailer chain called Metro AG has a problem with MS naming a style as "Metro" as if that term isn't used for so many other things in our world, like "I'm gonna take the metro downtown". I have the same level of disgust as I do with this Apple/Samsung fiasco. Winning over a button style? The Apple button is nothing special - it looks like a FRICKIN BUTTON, better patent it. I wonder when we'll have parents start to patent their child's name.