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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.
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brett Lorenzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 5:07 PM
>Subject: WC:>: Windows 00
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>>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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