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Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release? | |
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| Time: 00:04 EST/05:04 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Ed Bott: I’m reading more and more about Windows 7 lately as PDC approaches and Microsoft begins revealing more snippets of information about its most secretive product ever. In most of that coverage, I’ve noticed an assumption that Windows 7 is going to be the final name of the product. I’ve been guilty of leaping to that conclusion myself.
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| #1 By 2201 (82.45.132.196) at Thursday, October 09, 2008 04:20:40 AM |
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What kind of non-story is this? Why would Microsoft keep the name Windows 7? This author has obviously forgotton all the previous versions of Windows (since 95 at least) which was described using their codename until soon before release. Windows Vista was known as Longhorn for years till they announced a formal name soon before it was released. So it stands to reason that Microsoft will announce a proper name at some point next year.
Idiot! |
| #2 By 17855 (205.167.180.132) at Thursday, October 09, 2008 08:05:59 AM |
| Did you click on the link and read the non-story? Then the author succeeded in what he wanted you to do. |
| #3 By 3453 (140.254.63.2) at Thursday, October 09, 2008 01:23:37 PM |
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I think Vista ME is available.
HeartMan |
| #4 By 143 (96.28.64.138) at Thursday, October 09, 2008 02:36:33 PM |
| I'm betting on "Vista Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" edition. |
| #5 By 2960 (70.177.180.170) at Thursday, October 09, 2008 05:06:06 PM |
| As long as there are DEEP DEEP discounts for those of us who paid $400 for the full version of un-ultimate, I don't care what they call it. |
| #6 By 37 (192.251.125.85) at Friday, October 10, 2008 07:39:23 AM |
| Why can't they call it Windows 7? Remember Windows 3.11? |
| #7 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Friday, October 10, 2008 10:37:44 AM |
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Windows 7 or Windows 2007 sound fine to me.
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| #8 By 37 (192.251.125.85) at Friday, October 10, 2008 12:29:22 PM |
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Or how about ubuntumandrakelinuxredhatcorellinux.
Much more consumer friendly ;) |
| #9 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Friday, October 10, 2008 12:49:16 PM |
| Um, make that Windows 2009. |
| #10 By 23275 (71.91.9.16) at Friday, October 10, 2008 04:33:40 PM |
| Steven Sinofsky is running things - it will be Windows 2010 (even if released late in 2009) - though it should be Windows Vista R2 (less they take a giant dump on the heads of partners and users who have moved Vista despite the drubbing each has fairly, or unfairly taken on behalf of MS). |
| #11 By 12071 (124.168.135.119) at Friday, October 10, 2008 10:44:57 PM |
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#3 I thought the current version was Vista ME!
#6 Because most (majority of?) software companies have stopped using version numbers when marketing their newest version, e.g. Adobe, Symantec, Microsoft etc etc. #10 "R2" isn't a consumer-friendly term - at least not one that you'd print on the side of a box. Maybe they can do a Street Fighter thing with it... "Super Windows Vista II Turbo" I'd bet on them dumping the "Vista" name as quickly as they can with this version of Windows. |
| #12 By 17996 (66.235.18.153) at Saturday, October 11, 2008 03:07:21 AM |
| #6 -- because it isn't Windows 7.0... it's really just 6.1. Sinofsky's "every new version has a new, .0 version number" philosophy from Office just doesn't work over in the Windows side -- 6.1 is a very proper descriptor of "7"'s changes over Vista. |
| #13 By 2201 (78.32.103.51) at Sunday, October 12, 2008 03:29:24 PM |
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#10 and #11 They obviously won't be calling it Vista, considering all the previous versions of Windows since 95 have had different names. For example they didn't carry on the XP name, did they? Or the Me name? Microsoft have never reused names for new versions of Windows so "R2" is out. It's 100% guaranteed that they will be calling it something different, just like they always have done.
#all - they won't be calling it after a year, they gave that up since Windows 98SE. Naming it after a particular year is reserved for the server versions of Windows and has been since Windows 2000. |
| #14 By 28801 (71.58.225.185) at Sunday, October 12, 2008 05:35:24 PM |
| They could call it Mojave! |
| #15 By 2201 (82.45.132.196) at Tuesday, October 14, 2008 04:04:07 AM |
| And guess what? Microsoft announced it WILL be called Windows 7. That's a turn up for the books. |
