Microsoft is renaming its cloud storage service from "SkyDrive" to "OneDrive" after British broadcaster BSkyB took issue with its former name, "SkyDrive."
The two sides settled the dispute last July for undisclosed financial terms of companies after British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC won fever initial case in a British court.
Microsoft said the change would be made very soon but did not open the date. While the re-branding doesn't involve to change the logo(two blue clouds on a white background ) because it does bring the name more in line with other company brands.
Last July, Microsoft re-organized it's corporate structure to focus on providing both devices and services in a strategy it called "One Microsoft" and Microsoft SkyDrive Rename to OneDrive. Likely is based as One Google for all It's services.
Its latest game console, released in November, is called "Xbox One."
Microsoft last week reported revenue and earnings for it's fiscal second quarter that topped Wall Street expectations, as the company sold 3.9 million Xbox One consoles to their retailers and doubled revenue from its line of Surface tablets from a quarter earlier. Net income through December climbed to $6.56 billion, or 78 cents per share, from $6.38 billion, or 76 cents per share, before a year.
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