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Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7

Posted by timothy on from the but-most-folks-call-me-jim dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's Mike Nash came forward today in a blog post on the Windows Vista Blog and revealed the official name for Windows Code Name '7' as simply 'Windows 7.' The reasoning, by Mr. Nash, is that Windows 7 is 'the seventh release of Windows.' As much wonderful sense as this makes on first glance, it seems as if Microsoft's marketing teams pulled this number out of thin air: the Windows 7 kernel is version 6.1, and there's no way Windows 7 adds up as the seventh release of Windows anyway."

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  1. Re:Lets count: by CrackerJackz · · Score: 0, Troll

    I fully understand that, but I'm trying to block Vista out of my memory at this point :)

    4.0 = NT
    5.0 = 2000
    5.1 = XP
    6.0 = *shudders* Vista
    7.0 = hopefully something that works consistently :)

  2. I'm Shocked! by BanjoBob · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm Shocked! Shocked I tell you! Microsoft marketing didn't speake the truth?!?!? Oh the shame of it all :-)

    This was supposed to be in fun but I'm sure it will be "Trolled".

    --
    Banjo - The more I know about Windoze, the more I love *nix
  3. Re:Isn't Seven lucky in China by plague3106 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well, if people use software MS would have otherwise been paid for, they are costing Microsoft money. Your argument only holds provided people don't actually use software they didn't purchase.