-- On Wed, 4 Nov 1998 07:30:46 Gentry Wilson wrote: >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 >>____________________________________________________________________ >>-------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now >>Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants >>If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done >>directly from our website for all our lists. >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >____________________________________________________________________ >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now >Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants >If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done >directly from our website for all our lists. >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > Get your FREE E-mail at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://personal.lycos.com ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done directly from our website for all our lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
