In addition to the change in its products' names, Lindows Wednesday altered the URL of its main Web site from lindows.com to linspire.com. As of mid-morning Wednesday, the linspire.com site was up and running, although it included numerous mentions of LindowsOS. And while the lindows.com URL remains live, it will soon redirect users to linspire.com.
Even though Lindows has stymied Microsoft's legal efforts in the U.S., and in countries such as France and Sweden, the name change was still necessary to get Microsoft off its back, said Lindows' CEO Michael Robertson.
"We're hoping that this puts a halt on the international lawsuits," said Robertson in a statement. "A Microsoft spokesperson has publicly stated that 'We're only asking that Lindows change their name' which is what we have done."
Last week, Lindows announced it would seek a new name, but only for its international business. The switch Wednesday, however, went beyond that, for it affects the Web site available to U.S. customers and products sold domestically.
Lindows called for name suggestions from its users, and collected hundreds in the weeks preceding today's announcement. Today's debut of Linspire, however, was greeted by yawns from some of the operating system's users posting on the Lindows message forum.
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