http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_%28operating_system%29
> Odd choice of names, since there is a Midori browser for Linux.
Do you think Microsoft cares? LOL.
Microsoft doesn't give a rat's rear end for other people's names, trademarks, etc. There was already a software company with a product named "Vista" when MS came out with that disaster of an OS, MS just stepped all over the existing outfit, and then the total failure of MS's Vista crushed the usefulness of the smaller company's product name.
"Midori" means "Green" in Japanese, and is in use for LOTS of things. There won't be any challenge to MS on that.
Microsoft did the same thing to a small Internet company that I was a part of back in 1996-1997 when they stole the term "Internet Explorer" from us - term we had a registered trademark for, then had the audacity to sue us, claming in court that "Internet Explorer" was a generic term.
Which completely contradicted a previous argument where they claimed "Windows" was specific to their product!
Microsoft lost in court to us, but by that time the company founder had spent every last dime we made in defeating Microsoft and we ended up bankrupt anyway. (Company founder was a complete dumb-ass. Let his ego get in the way of settling with Microsoft for 2.5 million dollars - their one and only offer - to "buy" the term "Internet Explorer from us. Founder believed it was worth 10x that.)