No matter how unoriginal Intel and Microsoft may name their products, they did it after extensive research amongst the public. Even the computer-illiterate have heard of Pentium, while Wilamette is much less known. Also Microsoft has researched that people prefer a year as a version number. Let's just let them use their minds in innovating their products, not the names of the products.
Tetris for buildings is all nice and well, but the record is still set in 1995 in the netherlands by the association for electrical engineering students. check http://etv.et.tudelft.nl/commissies/lustrum/movegi f.html (or the guiness book of records)
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No matter how unoriginal Intel and Microsoft may name their products, they did it after extensive research amongst the public. Even the computer-illiterate have heard of Pentium, while Wilamette is much less known. Also Microsoft has researched that people prefer a year as a version number. Let's just let them use their minds in innovating their products, not the names of the products.
Tetris for buildings is all nice and well, but the record is still set in 1995 in the netherlands by the association for electrical engineering students. check http://etv.et.tudelft.nl/commissies/lustrum/movegi f.html (or the guiness book of records)