Microsoft renames SkyDrive to OneDrive following trademark dispute

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Microsoft has announced it is renaming its SkyDrive cloud service to OneDrive, after losing a trademark dispute with British Sky Broadcasting Group over the "Sky" name in July 2013. The transition will happen in the coming weeks with no interruptions to the service whatsoever. But the company promises that this...

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Microsoft announced that is has renamed its long-running SkyDrive cloud storage and sharing service. From henceforth, it shall be known as “OneDrive”. In the short video Microsoft posting on its OneDrive blog announcing the change, the new message is that the service is “one” place for everything--your photos, videos,...

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Microsoft recently announced renaming its cloud storage service SkyDrive to OneDrive after trademark lawsuit with British satellite broadcaster BSkyB over the name. While there was a overwhelmingly positive response to OneDrive name, Microsoft might still face some trademark suits in different countries where OneDrive name is already in use. TechGeek.com listed few of those companies which uses OneDrive name already, _It is the_name of a bolt designed by an Australian company called Zipbolt called the_OneDrive 15.200. There is a product called_OneDrive_from an Austin-based company called KLD Energy. It is a_propulsion and generation system for electric vehicles. There is a Portuguese car parts importer and distributor, who is also called OneDrive. ONEDrive_is the name of upcoming software from DataONE – or the Data Observation Network for Earth. In New Zealand, OneDrive is a car-rental service for businesses that are members of OneFocus – which is now the Universal Business Team as the OneFocus domain now redirects to the UBT website. There is an API called_OneDrive that is available on GitHub. Apart...

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A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft renamed SkyDrive to OneDrive after losing a trademark dispute with British Sky Broadcasting Group over the "Sky" name. Although OneDrive is yet to make its debut, it looks like the service will provide some added features compared to SkyDrive. According to a LiveSlide report,...




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Microsoft was forced to rebrand its cloud storage service after a loss of a trademark dispute with British Sky Broadcasting Group over the “SkyDrive” name and now it has officially renamed its cloud storage service SkyDrive to OneDrive globally.
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Last month, Microsoft announced that it would rename SkyDrive to OneDrive, after it lost a trademark battle with British Sky Broadcasting Group over the "Sky" name. Today, the rebrand has gone live, along with a number of new features that will please both old and new users.



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