Goodbye to Windows Live

[John Williamson]

Le Pont Neuf ("The New Bridge") in Paris, built in the late XVI - Early
XVII Century, is the oldest bridge in Paris, so I have to ask "What is
it with these Microsoft upstarts?".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_Neuf

There are a few "pont neuf" type names about, in the same way as there
is a "New Inn" in many, many, British towns. They are almost always the
oldest of their type in town, but they *were* in most cases, the second
to be built.

To get back to NT, I wonder if any of the computer magazines have issues
from 1993 available on-line? I've done a quick search and got no
positives, but this is a slow connection.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Quite a few companies do that trick. The SAS institute's name, for
instance, originally stood for "Statistical Analysis System". Now they
say it means nothing. And AARP was "American Association of Retired
People". Now that also means nothing.

Commonplace, but dumb.

Not necessarily dumb; people become familiar with a set of initials, as
representing a company or product, and the association remains long
after the original name has little relationship to what the company now
does or the product now is. The UK has plenty of examples too - BP, ICI,
BAE SYSTEMS, GKN ...

 

[Gene Wirchenko]

Not necessarily dumb; people become familiar with a set of initials, as
representing a company or product, and the association remains long
after the original name has little relationship to what the company now
does or the product now is. The UK has plenty of examples too - BP, ICI,
BAE SYSTEMS, GKN ...

KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken).

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

 

[John Williamson]

BP, which used to stand for British Petroleum, now stands, allegedly,
for Beyond Petroleum, as signified by their new logo of a green
sunburst, which is supposed to make us think of solar power.

 

[Gene Wirchenko]

BP, which used to stand for British Petroleum, now stands, allegedly,
for Beyond Petroleum, as signified by their new logo of a green
sunburst, which is supposed to make us think of solar power.

And not the Caribbean? Near a certain spill?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

 

[John Williamson]

And not the Caribbean? Near a certain spill?

I think they're still trying to shift the blame for that one. The logo
and name change came before the spill, on this side of the Atlantic at
least.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

BP, which used to stand for British Petroleum, now stands, allegedly,
for Beyond Petroleum, as signified by their new logo of a green
sunburst, which is supposed to make us think of solar power.

When I lived in Germany (196x-198x, more or less), there it stood for
Benzin Petroleum, Benzin being the German word for one variety of
petrol/gas (Benzin and Super being analogous - roughly - to what in UK
was two and four star, and in USA I think regular and premium; basically
octane rating, I think).