Microsoft Could Face ‘Vista’ Trademark Challenge

Microsoft could face a ‘Vista’ trademark challenge from the founder of Vista Inc., a custom application and services provider headquartered just down the road from Microsoft, over the naming of the next version of the Windows operating system:

John Wall, chief executive officer of Vista Inc., said his company is “considering all of its options” for a potential case against Microsoft because of the company’s choice of the name “Windows Vista” for the previously code-named Longhorn version of the OS.

“If people call it Windows Vista, thats not a problem,” he said. “If people call it ‘Vista,’ that confuses it with our business and what we do.

Reuters