Windows 7 Gets Official Name

By | October 14th, 2008 comments icon (2) Comments


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Microsoft finally made the announcement we have all been waiting on. No, not that those emails from Bill Gates you’ve been forwarding to your friends and family for years are true, but that the official name of the new Windows, codename Windows 7, will be…Windows 7. Exciting, yes? Windows has not been known by a version number since Windows 3.11 was replaced by Windows 95. From 1995 forward, Microsoft has used either years (98, 2000) or as Mike Nash called them, “aspirational monikers” like XP and Vista. The return to version numbers appears to show a change in direction for Microsoft. Using a version number changes how the product will be marketed. No longer will some flashy catch phrase based on the name rule the push of the new Windows. Let us all hope that this also signals a change in direction for the programming. Microsoft had a pretty good thing with XP and ruined it with Vista. Perhaps Windows 7 will return us to a slimmer and quicker OS now that the name is also lighter. [via]




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  • Truster of XP

    I’m so glad that Microsoft will save the countless number of IT administrators out there who can now have an excellent reason to keep Vista off of our networks. With the introduction of Windows 7, the hulking mass of Vista can be left in the dust like Windows Me was. If they can manage to keep the functionality and smoothness of XP while keeping the visual look of Vista’s menu system, it will be a smash hit. Here’s to lucky number 7!