Microsoft's decision to call the next version of its OS Vista might have a raised a few smiles last week but one Redmond resident is less than impressed. The boss of Vista, a software and services company for small businesses is considering taking legal action against the software giant.
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Member since:2005-07-07
At the very least, any company with the name "Vista" in their product line will get bumped off the top 10 (20-30?) from Google, that could be devestating to some companies who only have a web presence.
Yeah, that was one of the complaints that mail-order company Tiger Direct had against Apple with Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger".
Guess what? Your Google page ranking is not a right. It's not even a privilege. It's simply a function of some complicated algorithms in a cluster of machines at a Google datacentre. I can't see any judge issuing a ruling except for "sucks to be you".
Member since:2005-06-29
The basis for your argument is that his argument was to make page rankings a right. But that wasn't his argument. His argument was:
Trademark exists to provide recognition. Searches are a manifestation of recognition. This will hurt recognition on google; therefore this damages a form of name recognition.
There's some truth to your point; but your argument is entirely crap.
Member since:
2005-07-06
At the very least, any company with the name "Vista" in their product line will get bumped off the top 10 (20-30?) from Google, that could be devestating to some companies who only have a web presence.