Official name for Vista successor made public!

14 October 2008 by Gunthy
Filed under Windows

Mike Nash from the Windows Vista Team announced yesterday that the new Windows, codename ‘Windows 7′, will be officially named … ‘Windows 7′.

Many fellow bloggers on the Net are of course flaming Microsoft for this decision. Personally, I don’t care so much, but one has to scratch his head at the following statement:

Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore “Windows 7″ just makes sense.

Now, in my opinion, however you look at previous Windows releases, there is no way that this counts up to the seventh release…

Yet again, Microsoft techs seem to be intimidated, owned, bitchslapped, whatever you want to call it, by their marketing department. Or not? Let’s face it, nobody really cares about what they name it, as long as it functions. I see a lot of discussion about kernel version numbers here & there, release dates, versions, all the mumbo jumbo, but what the heck, let’s cut them some slack…

Now people who know me will attest to this, I’m not the biggest Microsoft-fan on the globe. Hell, if I’d get it my way, they’d probably have a lot less market-share. But ever since they released Vista, I’ve been seeing light at the end of the tunnel.

Yes I know, Vista is not perfect, but what OS is (and no Linux isn’t either )?? In the end, it all depends on preference, just with about anything else in life. Let’s just hope the Microsoft-boys will have learned from their mistakes with Vista. If so, I think we can expect a hell of a good release with this new version.

Anyway, the beast is out . Seems they will be handing out pre-beta versions to some developers soon, so now the wait for the rest of us to find them on torrent-sites begins!

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