Microsoft has made it official - Next Windows OS is Windows 7

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MICROSOFT HAS MADE IT official. The new name for the next Windows Operating System will be – take a breath, sit down – Windows 7.

Mike Nash, Volish Veep of Windows product management, made the announcement in a blog post last night in which he did his best to explain Microsoft’s previous fuzzy logic in the naming of Windows software.

Nash noted that after starting with a logical, if nerdy sounding, version numbering system the company then moved on from names like “Windows 3.11” to naming the OS by its year of release. This worked for Windows 95 through ‘98 until it was deemed impractical by the Redmond Giant, since it didn’t ship new versions every year. Next came what Nash calls "the aspirational monikers” stage in which the Vole tried to be clever, cool and, er, random.

Windows Me supposedly stood both for the Millennium and “me, myself and I”. It was also a bit crap, so the company quickly binned it and came up with Windows XP in 2001. No one knew what XP stood for [er, eXPerience, wasn't it? Ed.], but it sounded techy and funky, so it stuck.

Windows Vista continued in the totally random and meaningless name trend, only remotely useful name-wise for when we all happily shout “hasta la vista” when we chuck it out the, er, Window.

And so now comes Windows 7, a name which supposedly reflects the build numbers as opposed to actual releases. Some think the new naming scheme could be an indication Microsoft wants to speed up release rates and up the competition with Apple, while others think that another bombastic name would take up too much media attention, drowning Vista once and for all.

But Nash has a more straightforward explanation, "Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore 'Windows 7' just makes sense," he says.

We make it about the 25th version of Windows but, as we learned with Word 6.0, Microsoft seems to have a different number if fingers and toes to the rest of us.





By Sylvie Barak
Next Windows OS is Windows 7 - The INQUIRER
 
I like the M$ code names for their products, Chicago, Blackcomb, Whistler and Longhorn spring to mind.
 
I prefer the simple (?) numbering system, avoids confusion.

Windows 1.xx - 3.xx were simple names and you knew exactly what OS you had and how far along the developement table you were. Win95 and 98 were also acceptable names and i suppose windows ME was equally simple to understand, but XP then XP SP1/SP2/SP3, Vista, Vista SP1 are hardly straight forward, no wonder some newbies tell you that their OS is 'Microsoft Office' when you ask them.

If it were left to me I'd have left things at Win1.x, Win2.x, Win3.x, Win4.x etc.....

Don't get me started on Processors, Pentium my ARSE, it's a fooking 586 processor....lol
 
well I suppose they have call it something, can't be as bad as the MacOS naming convention, tiger, leopard, snow leopard - WTF is that all about, whats their next one called 'Battlecat', 'Tiddles', or are they the code names?

I would call it Windows Vampire (since it is gonna suck all your resources dry, no matter what kind of uber rig you have)
 
We make it about the 25th version of Windows but, as we learned with Word 6.0, Microsoft seems to have a different number if fingers and toes to the rest of us


thanks for the post.

i always laugh when copying alot of files or big files, as it reports its going to take xxxxx minutes, i call this time microsoft minutes because they bare no resemblance to the actual amount of time it really takes, like the version numbers.
 
What about Linux, especially Ubuntu and it's wild naming policy, those guys are on crack.
 
I referred to my penis as 'Cock 2.0' last night.

The wife wouldn't let me use it as it had a virus.

I like the plain unattractive geekiness of Windows *.**

Windows 7 it is!
 
WTF is a Quagga? :err:

Quails Quim?
 
A quagga was a horse like animal and looked like half a zebra and half a shetland pony if my recollection serves me well.
 
A quagga was a horse like animal and looked like half a zebra and half a shetland pony if my recollection serves me well.

surely that should be a 'Zebony', " like my favourite quote from Spaceballs, "I'm a Mog, half man, half dog, I am my own best friend". :)
 
A quagga was a horse like animal and looked like half a zebra and half a shetland pony if my recollection serves me well.

Has Google changed it's name to 'My Memory" ? ;)
 
Google is our friend, where would we all be without it?! :)

* when saying Google, I refer only to the Search Engine, I remember it was solely (mostly) technical stuff that was available on it, these days it's a mish-mash of madness and brilliance.
 
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