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Re:Europe's new robotics unicorn: Germany's RobCo hits $1B v... by mock-possum on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:15AM (#49965942)
I mean Microsoft somehow stole Cortana of all things from Halo of all places so…
Re:Europe's new robotics unicorn: Germany's RobCo hits $1B v... by tastyfreeze on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:34AM (#49966227)
Microsoft owned Bungie when they named their assistant Cortana.

Microsoft acquired Bungie in 2000 and released the Cortana assistant in 2014. It wasn't a stolen name. It was purchased and part of their portfolio for over a decade.

Re:Europe's new robotics unicorn: Germany's RobCo hits $1B v... by mock-possum on Saturday October 10, 2026 @04:01AM (#50030745)
Halo had nothing to do with windows. They literally looted that character, maybe ‘legally’ yes but that doesn’t do anything to finish the ‘theft’ of them taking a character developed by a game studio, and using their likeness in an utterly unrelated context as some sort of cringey tie-in.