Boy, just when you thought that Microsoft's horrible naming conventions were all bad, you hear this. A construction company in Seattle (Dexter and Chaney) is suing Microsoft for using the name "Forefront" for a new security software application. Dexter and Chaney have used the name "Forefront" for their own software product since 1988, and say the name would confuse their customers if Microsoft used it. Windows Live Security and Protection Systems Center is a better and less legally problematic name, don't you think? That, and Microsoft will be able to keep up the title as the worst software naming company in the known world.Microsoft is at the forefront of a legal naming battle
Boy, just when you thought that Microsoft's horrible naming conventions were all bad, you hear this. A construction company in Seattle (Dexter and Chaney) is suing Microsoft for using the name "Forefront" for a new security software application. Dexter and Chaney have used the name "Forefront" for their own software product since 1988, and say the name would confuse their customers if Microsoft used it. Windows Live Security and Protection Systems Center is a better and less legally problematic name, don't you think? That, and Microsoft will be able to keep up the title as the worst software naming company in the known world.
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9-26-2006 @ 8:54AM
DaVo said...
Poor Microsoft! lol
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9-26-2006 @ 9:40AM
Peter said...
Didn't MS buy the Forefront products from someone else? I wonder if these guys were suing them too, or if they waited until someone with deeper pockets came along.
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9-26-2006 @ 10:56AM
Bill said...
What's comes around goes around, huh.
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9-26-2006 @ 11:00AM
Bill said...
Oops, that's "what comes around goes around".
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