-=> Quoting Stewart Rothman to Bill Newman <=-
 >SR> Hi Bob,
 >SR> Excuse me for butting in, but Windows 97 NEVER will be invented,
 >SR> Microsoft will not be using numbers in names anymore. They cannot be
 >SR> copyrighted. Numbers as in versions are OK, but not numbers in names.
 SR> Bill, I think that if you check closely with that school, you just
 SR> might find  that they are teaching OFFICE 97, not Windows 97. I repeat,
 SR> Microsoft WILL NOT be issuing the next version of Windows
 SR> as Windows 97, they will call it Windows Memphis as there
 SR> Stu
From what I gathered, as long as the name is not made purely of numbers, it
can be trademarked (7up, 6x86, i486). Previously, the Intel chips were called
by their numbers but Intel started putting an "i" in front of "486" and Cyrix
put an "x" in "686" to avoid the copyright problem.
Mark
markmad@netspace.net.au
mmadroni@st.nepean.uws.edu.au
... Okay, okay - right after this one we're BACK to the TOPIC!
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