Neptune wrote:
It would be a bit like phoning up Apple, or Microsoft and saying "What is the meaning of your name?"
The name Apple was chosen because the company to beat in the technology industry at the time was Atari, and Apple Computer came before Atari alphabetically and thus also in the phone book. Another reason was that Jobs had happy memories of working on an Oregon apple farm one summer.
Allen came up with the original name of Micro-Soft (a portmanteau of microcomputer and software), as recounted in a 1995 Fortune magazine interview with Allen and Gates.[8] Hyphenated in its early incarnations, on November 26, 1976 the company was registered under that name with the Secretary of State of New Mexico. The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, entitled "ASCII Microsoft" (now called "Microsoft Japan"), and on November 29, 1979, the term, "Microsoft" was first used by Bill Gates.[9] On January 1, 1979, the company moved from Albuquerque to a new home in Bellevue, Washington.[9] Steve Ballmer joined the company on June 11, 1980, and would later succeed Bill Gates as CEO.[9] The company restructured on June 25, 1981, to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington (with a further change of its name to "Microsoft, Inc."). As part of the restructuring, Bill Gates became president of the company and Chairman of the Board, and Paul Allen became Executive Vice President.[9]
jin = 津 , they took the second word of the famous China city name "Tianjin "
Bao = 宝 , 宝 in Chinese means " Treasure "
Great, thanks for the confirmation.
Well... there you have it. It doesn't mean 'crappy euph' at all.
Dan Schultz
"The Village Tinker" http://www.thevillagetinker.com" target="_blank
Current 'stable'... Rudolf Meinl 5/4, Marzan (by Willson) euph, King 2341, Alphorn, and other strange stuff.
