Windows 7 Now Officially Named... Windows 7
From this point on, the much anticipated update to Microsoft’s Windows product line will be referred to by its final release name. Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management, posted on the Windows Vista Blog that the operating system has now been officially named "Windows 7".
That’s right, the upcoming operating system has been named the exact same as its codename, which according to Nash is "a first for Windows." Since Microsoft stopped using numerical product names for consumer and business versions of their operating systems after Windows 2000, this may come as a surprise to some. However, Nash stated reasons why the software giant decided on this rather uncreative name.
Microsoft has tried many naming schemes in the past. First there was Windows 3.x which was simply a version number. Then there were of course the names based on the year of release such as Windows 95. Windows Me, XP and Vista followed using what Nash referred to as "aspirational monikers." Microsoft did not want to detract attention from the fact that Windows 7 is based on the same kernel as Windows Vista and Server 2008, which is why they avoided the "aspirational monikers" of current operating systems.
This time around they wanted to keep things simple. So why call it Windows 7? Nash gave a blunt explanation in his blog entry: "Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore ’Windows 7’ just makes sense."
Quite clearly there are more than seven Windows releases. It is possible that Nash is referring to the seventh major release of a Windows NT-based operating system, although the kernel version number is not 7.x.
More details about the new operating system will be released at the Professional Developers Conference and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. A "developer only" pre-beta release will be demonstrated to attendees at both events.
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That quite amusing. Guess they've given up on any creativity.
Should have named it "Lucky 7"
They probably coordinated it with Intel Core i7.
They better hope it's "lucky" or the whole world might start turning white and shiny *iPuke*
They better hope it's "lucky" or the whole world might start turning white and shiny *iPuke*
No, there is another one.
Also, shiny *iPuke* somehow makes me think of Stormtroopers.
Probably the minimum hardware requirement is Intel Core i7..
Probably the minimum hardware requirement is Intel Core i7..
but then they wont get any serious sales... so i doubt it
*sigh* is it too much to ask for an interesting name? i'm sure with the number of employees they have, they could have come up with 5 good suggestions in the span of a minute.
ah well, at least its just a name. lets hope the OS isnt as lame as its name.
They probably coordinated it with Intel Core i7.
Right it couldn't be they just are called it windows 7 because it is the 7th release of windows...
*sigh* is it too much to ask for an interesting name? i'm sure with the number of employees they have, they could have come up with 5 good suggestions in the span of a minute.ah well, at least its just a name. lets hope the OS isnt as lame as its name.
As I said in the article:
Microsoft did not want to detract attention from the fact that Windows 7 is based on the same kernel as Windows Vista vista and Server 2008, which is why they avoided the "aspirational monikers" of current operating systems.
"Aspirational monikers" is what Nash called "XP" and "Vista"
@ gsteacy,
XP stood for eXPerience and Vista for views or scene...
But a more solid reason for the numbering would be to align themselves with Apple's naming conventions (OS X 10.5)
That quite amusing. Guess they've given up on any creativity.
You couldn't tell just by the writing of the blog entry itself? When it was linked in IRC, two people simultaneously declared in just about the same words "This is a lame blog entry." I suspect this "Mike Nash" is also the brains behind the Gates/Seinfeld ads.
Actually this is the 7th release.
win 95 and 98 go together as 98 was just an update
that leaves
3.11
95
2000
me
xp
vista
windows 7
Actually Actually .....
1. Windows 3.x/Windows NT 3.x
2. Windows 9x/Me
3. Windows NT 4.x
4. Windows 2000
5. Windows XP
6. Windows Vista
7. Windows 7
But depending on what the critera is for the numbering, technically it would start with Windows NT 3.x since it was the first Windows edition that did not sit on top of DOS or needed DOS to be installed.
Everyone forgetting windows 1.0 and Windows 2.0?
I know i've tried to, but there are somethings there isn't enough therapy in the world for...
Personally, I've always been a fan of naming conventions that utilize the year of release. For example, Microsoft Office 2003 or Aspen 2006.5 - it just seems to make sense to me.
I will continue to call it by it's former codename, Vista SP2.
Have they decided yet to include the new filesystem? So far it looks like they've tweaked the graphics a tiny bit and toned down the UAC just a bit (yeah!) What are the compelling reason to put down $200+ after I forked over the same amount to get Vista Ultimate?
I like it. Sounds a lot more professional and a lot less like the kind of name a marketer would come up with.
XP SP2 could qualify as a different OS compared to the original.
Funny how people are calling W7 vista SP2 and yet XP was just a upgrade version of 2000.
Tentative names included Windows Blackcomb, Windows Vienna, WindOS X, Windex, Windows Steak and Bl*wj*bs Edition!!! (which proved in beta testing to be Tofu and Long Querulous Discussion About Where Our Relationship Is Going Edition) and Windows 2007^W2008^W2009^W2010.
Blog rant: http://tinyurl.com/3l8pws