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Fiji to Microsoft: Stop using our name
Like most tech companies, Microsoft tends to come up with code names for upcoming software releases. Windows Vista was called "Longhorn" before it was released. And for a while, we've been hearing that Microsoft is working on an updated version of the operating system called "Fiji." Fiji won't be Windows 7, but rather an updated version of Windows Vista that could contain additional features such as an updated version of Windows Media Center.
There's pretty much zero chance that Microsoft will ever release a product called Fiji. This is just a codename used by the developers. But apparently Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, attorney general of the nation of Fiji says he's not particularly pleased with Microsoft's use of the name. Of course, it seems that Sayed-Khaiyum may be under the mistaken impression that Microsoft will release a commercial product called Fiji, since the attorney general says the country's name should not be used for "commercial gain."
[via Ian Dixon's Blog]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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poopy_pants said 5:14PM on 6-26-2008
waste of an article. downloadsquad is beginning to become even more terrible. from useless articles to retarded reviews of incredibly crappy software
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velocitySTRIKE said 9:07AM on 6-27-2008
Posts like this (yours) bother me, because I always think "well, why don't you stop reading?" - the internet is a vast place, and if you've such a complaint to make about a post on a blogsmith powered site, maybe you're missing something.
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jdw242b said 5:32PM on 6-26-2008
Nevermind that there are apparently already products using Fiji:
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=fiji+products&btnG=Search+Images
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Todd said 5:46PM on 6-26-2008
@Poopy Pants "participation" means you have to describe how the post could improve, add some external resources to examples ( See my troll-esque snotty comments about the Download Squad's ongoing news blackout for Google's Android ) If you complain with out contributing, that just makes you, well, a poopy pants thing to do.
And to the subject of this post, yes Redmond, stop using the word Fiji...and while you are at it stop using the word "operating system" combined with your trademarked word Vista® - it's false advertising! ;)
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Kev said 6:39PM on 6-26-2008
I think microsoft needs to get their game together if they want to keep their market share. Until then, I'm switching to Mac ASAP.
http://www.kevinmstich.com/kevin/wpblog/
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TurboFool said 12:18PM on 6-27-2008
Thank you for your insightful blog plug.
gojeda said 7:32PM on 6-26-2008
Trademark law is laughing at Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum right now.
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Carl Sagan said 6:59AM on 6-27-2008
They should call it "Butthead Archipelago" instead.
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James said 11:39AM on 6-27-2008
If the jerks keep it up, Bill Gates will just *buy* the island and rename them like that.
You laugh, but it could happen =-)
Dave Forster said 7:56AM on 6-27-2008
Having any double glazing firms complained yet ?
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TurboFool said 12:18PM on 6-27-2008
Now I'm waiting for the Republic of the Fiji Islands to ask the water company to stop using its name. Especially since the overpriced filtered tap water gives the islands a bad name.
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