Protecting brands

Microsoft has opened its second flagship retail store (bottom left), and some are saying that these are copies of the Apple stores.
Similarities are lots of open space and broad, clean tables with equipment for customers to try.
Perhaps Microsoft was inspired by the design of Apple stores, which have certainly been successful in showcasing Apple products.
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Fiji’s military government may have been a bit trigger happy in lodging an objection to Microsoft’s use of the name Fiji for its new software system. The government objected after media reported that the American software giant, whose US$11 billion profit last year was almost three times Fiji’s GDP, was naming its new software product Windows [...]

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