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Monday, October 13. 2008

Windows 7 is called Windows 7 - officially

As mentioned here, they are not trying to come up with a clever name for the version after Vista. Some people are complaining already about naming an OS around a version number but... OS X? Hello? OS 10.

I've also seen complaints that the kernel is reporting 6.1. This is by design, and it is due to the amount of programs that will downright break if a major version number incremented.

I'm glad they are moving away from year based names, too.

Posted by Aaron Tiensivu in Microsoft, Vista, Windows OS at 20:42 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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I liked year based names - it helped to persuade customers to upgrade.

"You're still using Windows 2000? It's 8 years old!"

#1 Lukas Beeler (Homepage) on 2008-10-14 01:19 (Reply)

Ya, I like year based names as well. Wish they just kept it that way after Windows 2000.

#2 Elan Shudnow (Homepage) on 2008-10-14 19:35 (Reply)

I think your wrong re: the 6.1 - it will remain 6.1 during beta and become 7.0 on release.

Much like a pre-release 1st version app is always 0.something till the final 1.0 release, as this will be 7th gen windows it will still be 6.something till it's final release. So windows 7 should be 7.0 upon shipping.

#3 Ap0kalipSe on 2008-10-16 08:36 (Reply)

I've also heard that it'll be 6.1 from beta to rtm to end of life. It's really 7.0 but its being called 6.1 to minimize application compatibility issues.

#3.1 6.1 on 2008-10-16 16:28 (Reply)

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/10/14/why-7.aspx

#3.1.1 Aaron Tiensivu (Homepage) on 2008-10-16 23:54 (Reply)

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