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Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

ArmZ posted:

At this point msoft should just try to make ipad a genericized trademark and sell tablets by that name to dilute the brand

apple legal vs microsoft legal

i have a hunch apple would win that fight by a wide, wide margin

# ? Sep 9, 2014 00:53

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# ? May 18, 2024 06:37

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

Sniep posted:

apple legal vs microsoft legal

i have a hunch apple would win that fight by a wide, wide margin

nah all the lawyers that work for companies like that went to the same schools and worked for the same firms. they are also insulated from management to a certain extent.

# ? Sep 9, 2014 01:13

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

ArmZ posted:

nah all the lawyers that work for companies like that went to the same schools and worked for the same firms

your worst nightmare in the courtroom is lawyers on both sides who are buddies

# ? Sep 9, 2014 01:15

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

ArmZ posted:

nah all the lawyers that work for companies like that went to the same schools and worked for the same firms. they are also insulated from management to a certain extent.

i dont know what your point is, but, loooool if you think for one minute apple wouldn't crush microsoft into a mortar with the pestle of legal might if microsoft ran an add calling the surface an iPad

Sniep fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Sep 9, 2014

# ? Sep 9, 2014 01:15

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

THC posted:

i, too, love it when the onion repeats the same joke 18 times

same but your posting

# ? Sep 9, 2014 01:17

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

graph posted:

your worst nightmare in the courtroom is lawyers on both sides who are buddies

imagine being the judge that drew the short straw on that one

# ? Sep 9, 2014 01:26

Hugh G. Rectum: Mar 1, 2011

apple once again copying xerox

# ? Sep 9, 2014 01:30

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

Sudo Echo posted:

apple once again copying xerox

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# ? Sep 9, 2014 01:33

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

hobbesmaster posted:

imagine being the judge that drew the short straw on that one

ive only seen it in traffic court but can only imagine a civil/criminal case

# ? Sep 9, 2014 01:46

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

i don't think you guys saw this the first time around

Sono posted:

They called the third iPad-like device the Surface One.

# ? Sep 9, 2014 02:15

eric: Apr 27, 2004; Lipstick Apathy

The color commentator for Monday night football just called the surface an ipad. money well spent

# ? Sep 9, 2014 04:35

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

eric posted:

The color commentator for Monday night football just called the surface an ipad. money well spent

lol this totally didn't backfire at all

# ? Sep 9, 2014 05:40

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

working in microsoft marketing must own

you can be completely incompetent and you'll always have budget/a job

id be doing a line of coke off a stripper's rear end all charged to the corporate card each time someone said ipad on air

# ? Sep 9, 2014 06:36

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

mishaq posted:

working in microsoft marketing must own

you can be completely incompetent and you'll always have budget/a job

id be doing a line of coke off a stripper's rear end all charged to the corporate card each time someone said ipad on air

bad ppl need jobs too

# ? Sep 9, 2014 07:25

Happy_Misanthrope: Aug 3, 2007; "I wanted to kill you, go to your funeral, and anyone who showed up to mourn you, I wanted to kill them too."

quote:

The news that Microsoft would be rename its Bing content apps with the MSN brand was met immediately with the resistance I expected from the Windows community. But if you step back and think about it for a moment, this rebranding�and the resultant relaunch of MSN as a web-based portal for all of the information that backs these wonderful apps�actually makes sense. MSN, after all, is Microsoft's online content brand, and Bing is about search. Put another way, MSN is Microsoft's Yahoo, and Bing is Microsoft's Google.

# ? Sep 9, 2014 07:59

Phoenixan: Jan 16, 2010; Just Keep Cool-idge

we can't even joke about the branding anymore because i think ms employees are actually reading this thread and stealing our ideas

# ? Sep 9, 2014 08:05

Messyass: Dec 23, 2003

what? you mean that pleasurekevin post a few pages back wasn't a goatse link? they're actually bringing back msn?

:magical:

# ? Sep 9, 2014 08:14

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

why focus on one brand when you can flog the rotting corpse of two?

# ? Sep 9, 2014 08:30

Athletic Footjob: Sep 24, 2005; Grimey Drawer

bring back msn messenger with the old better smilies

# ? Sep 9, 2014 08:39

MeruFM: Jul 27, 2010

i liked that party hat smilie and sad flower

# ? Sep 9, 2014 09:08

cowboy beepboop: Feb 24, 2001

Athletic Footjob posted:

bring back msn messenger with the old better smilies

lol if you didn't use icq

# ? Sep 9, 2014 09:13

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

if you want the nostalgia of msn from the early 2000s then just use lync for mac. its identical - lovely emoticons, file transfer that doesn't work

# ? Sep 9, 2014 10:44

Wheany: Mar 17, 2006; Spinya^{ha^{ha^haha}ha}ha_{ha_{ha_haha}ha}ha!; Doctor Rope

This is relevant again http://wheany.com/ms-branding/

# ? Sep 9, 2014 11:14

cowboy beepboop: Feb 24, 2001

Thanks Ants posted:

if you want the nostalgia of msn from the early 2000s then just use lync for mac. its identical - lovely emoticons, file transfer that doesn't work

also lync for all platforms

# ? Sep 9, 2014 12:27

minivanmegafun: Jul 27, 2004

Athletic Footjob posted:

bring back msn messenger with the old better smilies

good news: they're still in Lync (the Mac version at least)!

including the a/s/l one, which I found accidentally during a conversation with my boss.

e: lol, beaten. keeping this post for the anecdote.

# ? Sep 9, 2014 12:51

univbee: Jun 3, 2004

one thing i do miss is an im client that lets me use custom smilies (like importing the sa ones) in a way where it actually gets sent to the person i'm chatting with in a way where they don't have to have the same customizations. MSN messenger was awesome for that :smith:

# ? Sep 9, 2014 13:22

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

univbee posted:

one thing i do miss is an im client that lets me use custom smilies (like importing the sa ones) in a way where it actually gets sent to the person i'm chatting with in a way where they don't have to have the same customizations. MSN messenger was awesome for that

people liked it, people used it, so naturally we discontinued it

ms trying to be google again

# ? Sep 9, 2014 14:02

computer parts: Nov 18, 2010; PLEASE CLAP

univbee posted:

one thing i do miss is an im client that lets me use custom smilies (like importing the sa ones) in a way where it actually gets sent to the person i'm chatting with in a way where they don't have to have the same customizations. MSN messenger was awesome for that

QQ does this, but it's chinese so it's not that popular in the us

# ? Sep 9, 2014 14:07

Blackula69: Apr 1, 2007; ＤＥＨＵＭＡＮＩＺＥＹＯＵＲＳＥＬＦ＆ＦＡＣＥＴＯＢＬＡＣＵＬＡ

graph posted:

your worst nightmare in the courtroom is lawyers on both sides who are buddies

this is p much every corporate lawyer though

# ? Sep 9, 2014 14:20

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

Happy_Misanthrope posted:

i mean, i get it, but yeah

Blackula69 posted:

this is p much every corporate lawyer though

never .knock on wood. dealt with corp lawyers

# ? Sep 9, 2014 14:25

Blackula69: Apr 1, 2007; ＤＥＨＵＭＡＮＩＺＥＹＯＵＲＳＥＬＦ＆ＦＡＣＥＴＯＢＬＡＣＵＬＡ

i've been to hearings and mediation etc. and everybody's just palling around until the judge shows up

# ? Sep 9, 2014 14:28

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

univbee posted:

one thing i do miss is an im client that lets me use custom smilies (like importing the sa ones) in a way where it actually gets sent to the person i'm chatting with in a way where they don't have to have the same customizations. MSN messenger was awesome for that

sametime

# ? Sep 9, 2014 14:46

pagoe: Feb 19, 2013

carry on then posted:

sametime

unironically better than all alternatives. only downside was 500kb emote size limit

# ? Sep 9, 2014 15:02

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

Wheany posted:

This is relevant again http://wheany.com/ms-branding/

as long as microsoft is in business, this will be relevant, and you are a good person for making it

pagoe posted:

unironically better than all alternatives. only downside was 500kb emote size limit

we use lotus notes at work and it is poo poo poo poo poo poo, but sametime is shockingly decent. it functions more or less like a chat program from 2003 and that is absolutely fine. i wish more companies would understand this, sometimes you manage to nail down a featureset and you can stop tossing on stupid bullshit.

# ? Sep 9, 2014 16:07

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

SO DEMANDING posted:

as long as microsoft is in business, this will be relevant, and you are a good person for making it

we use lotus notes at work and it is poo poo poo poo poo poo, but sametime is shockingly decent. it functions more or less like a chat program from 2003 and that is absolutely fine. i wish more companies would understand this, sometimes you manage to nail down a featureset and you can stop tossing on stupid bullshit.

our installation would be better if the server didn't have issues once every two weeks. "sometime" going down is basically a meme at this point

# ? Sep 9, 2014 16:09