http://active-i.com/win2000 has some nifty logos and a press release that a
friend of mine on "the inside" gave me.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Lorenzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 5:07 PM
Subject: WC:>: Windows 00
>Y'all will love this.
>
>First, MS ran into trouble with the name Windows NT. Seems Northern
>Telecom had prior use of NT and disliked MS's use.
>
>Then, as most of us know, Internet Explorer stepped on a trademark, and
>MS had to buy their way out of that one.
>
>And from the "3 times is a charm department" comes this:
>
>Microsoft forgot to do its homework when it decided on the name Windows
>2000 for what was originally going to be NT 5.0 (see story inside). The
>name was trademarked two-and-a-half years ago by Robert Kerstein, the
>former cellular CFO of McCaw Cellular Corporation, on behalf of his
>Encyberpedia reference web site.
>
>*heehee* slashdot.org has the unfolding details . . .
>
>The one market they obviously haven't cornered over at MS is the
>"learning from experience" market . . .
>
>B
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