For Those of you that thought they will Change the Vista name

[andriegel]

"However, despite potential legal conflicts, Microsoft is unlikely to change the product name, said Wilcox. "Microsoft is more likely to pay some money," he said. In 1998, Microsoft paid Internet service provider Synet US$5 million for the right to use the trademarked "Internet Explorer" name."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=620&e=5&u=/nf/20050802/bs_nf/37588

 

[RegFee]

Great news!
Hey slaughterbeck, looks like VistaThemes.com's value just went up a bit

I can't believe they only had to pay 5 million for Internet Explorer.

 

[Sohil]

I can't believe they only had to pay 5 million for Internet Explorer.

Don't forget that was in '98. Things were much cheaper than.

 

[RegFee]

Don't forget that was in '98. Things were much cheaper than.

Good point. I wonder how much they'll have to pay for "Vista"

 

[mappaiyo]

Maybe they will change it to "Windows 2005" or "windows 2006" ? As usual they use year to identify their windows products

Regards

 

[Refrozen]

Sounds good!

 

[labrocca]

I personally think they have chosen not to bother protecting the vista name. They probably spend millions each year on lawyers just to protect windows or microsoft. Why add another name. As long as someone doesn't have another software product called Vista I bet they simply won't care.

 

[domainprince]

Good news for vista domain owners

 

[tipsfromthetop]

thats the news i wanted to here, nice!

 

[RichPixel]

i'm sure whatever he has to pay it'll be small change

 

[KPR]

Yep im happy.

Thanks

 

[owenwww]

Unfortunately this news won't increase the value of vistadownloadz.net or similar.