Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 772
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."
Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:5, Funny)
the Windows 7 kernel is version 6.1
Perhaps they simply wanted to avoid the inevitable Windows 6, SP 6, Revision 6 ... of the beast?
Hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
I will wait for Windows 7.11 for Workgroups
What a lame name (Score:2, Funny)
version? (Score:5, Funny)
not counting vista (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe Microsoft isn't counting Vista. And Windows 7 sounds way better than Windows Vista Do-Over Edition.
Lets count: (Score:4, Funny)
Windows 1.x = 1
Windows 2.x = 2
Windows 3.x = 3
Windows NT 3.5 = um... 3.5?
Windows NT 4 = 4
Windows 2000 = 5
Windows XP = 6
Windows Vista = null
Windows 7 = 7
Ta-da!
Could have been worse... (Score:3, Funny)
perfection (Score:2, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What happened to Windows 6? (Score:5, Funny)
You are _happy_ with Windows and you ask what's wrong with you? On Slashdot? You must be new here.
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:perfection (Score:3, Funny)
Been done before (Score:3, Funny)
Article is Misleading (Score:2, Funny)
"7" will be just a maintainance release for Vista.
The really new Windows version will be called "Ubuntu". It has new "chocolate" artwork and they have switched to a Unix-based core and a modular architecture. It is going to be much more stable, user-friendly and fast.
You can download preview releases at ubuntu.com [ubuntu.com].
Re:Lets count: (Score:2, Funny)
D'oh! you made the noob mistake. The offset starts at 0, not 1.
Windows 1.x = 0
Windows 2.x = 1
Windows 3.x = 2
Windows NT 3.5 = um... 2.5?
Windows NT 4 = 3
Windows 2000 = 4
Windows XP = 5
Windows Vista = 6
Windows 7 = 7
Ta-da!
Windows Spinal Tap (Score:5, Funny)
Mike Nash : The OSes all go to seven. Look, right across the board, seven, seven, seven and...
PHB : Oh, I see. And most OSes top off at Vista?
Mike Nash : Exactly.
PHB : Does that mean it's better? Is it any better?
Mike Nash : Well, it's one better, isn't it? It's not Vista. You see, most blokes, you know, will be using Vista. You're on Vista here, all the way up, all your CPUs burning, all the way up, you're on Vista on your PC. Where can you go from there? Where?
PHB : I don't know.
Mike Nash : Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
PHB : Put it up to seven.
Mike Nash : Seven. Exactly. One better.
PHB : Why don't you just make Vista better and make Vista be the top number and make that a little better?
Mike Nash : [pause] These go to seven.
Isn't There a biblical passage For This? (Score:5, Funny)
"...and on the seventh day he rested".
Re:Kinda makes sense... (Score:4, Funny)
"Windows Steak And Blowjobs Edition"? Think people'd buy that?
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:5, Funny)
There's something (XP), missing (XP) from your list (XP).
I wonder (XP) what it could be (XP)?
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:5, Funny)
Actually it made me more think of Windows Seven [imdb.com], but that's just me. A few parts bloat, some OS X envy and some lust for world dominance and you're pretty much there.
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
They need to be cool like Apple. (Score:5, Funny)
Apple names their versions after cats and what chases cats?
So Windows CE/Mobile will be called Windows Poodle.
Windows 7 will be Windows Jackal.
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:4, Funny)
Actually it made me more think of Windows Seven, but that's just me. A few parts bloat, some OS X envy and some lust for world dominance and you're pretty much there.
So will they call it Windows Seven, Windows Se7en, Windows VII, or Windows X-III (just to cause some brand confusion with OS X)?
Star Trek Reference (Score:3, Funny)
I've heard it said that MS needs to win over the geek crowd of early adopters. Maybe this is an attempt to get them with an implied Seven of Nine reference. All it needs now is an ad campaign featuring Jeri Ryan.
Re:Kinda makes sense... (Score:5, Funny)
Then you get it home and it actually turns out to be the "tofu and long meaningful discussion about where our relationship is going" edition.
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Kinda makes sense... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah but it'd be a disappointing experience.
Unzipping would take ages, Then it'll be
"Do you want me baby? [Yes][No][Cancel]"
Windows is opening it's mouth [Allow][Deny]
Windows is attempting to access penis [Allow][Deny]
Detecting New Hardware [2 hour wait]
Disappointing blowjob with crap animation.
Windows has detected you're attempting to ejaculate - You do not have sufficient permissions - Fatal Error
BSOD! No steak for you!
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:2, Funny)
What About Bob?
There, fixed that for you.
Mojave (Score:4, Funny)
And here I thought they'd call it Windows Mojave!
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:5, Funny)
You made me look up the video [youtube.com]. I want the last 6 minutes and 41 seconds of my life back.
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:5, Funny)
Ah - so you were imagining a Borg cluster of those.
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:2, Funny)
Was that the one called "Windows 386" that had the terrible rapping-office-chick promo video?
looked up the video...
then came back and looked at your comment again...
Oh it was promo not porno
Damn was looking forward to the "rapping-office-chick prono video"
Silly me
Re:Isn't There a biblical passage For This? (Score:2, Funny)
"...and on the seventh day he rested".
"...and on the seventh version, it crashed".
;)
Fixed it for ya
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:5, Funny)
I can't wait for the commercials of Windows Se7en being released. Morgan Freeman, fresh off a Mac commercial, signing for the package and having Brad Pitt pace around screaming, "What's in the box?!"
Come to think of it...
http://therawfeed.com/pix/steve_ballmer-2.jpg [therawfeed.com]
http://www.theambler.com/images/KevinSpaceySe7en.jpg [theambler.com]
Oh shit, I think we're on to something.
Re:You need a lesson in OS (Score:5, Funny)
The Disk Operating System is not an operating system?
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:5, Funny)
since we're on Slashdot I'll burn some karma
Where else would you burn karma? Hindu.org?
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, that's good...
Freeman: Hi, I'm a Mac
Pitt: And I'm a PC.
Freeman: So, PC, what's in the box?
Pitt: I dunno, something Linux gave me.
Spacey: Hey guys. Go ahead and open it. Hope you like surprises.
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:5, Funny)
actually, her full designation is "Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-One."
but i don't really watch Star Trek...
Re:(blinks) (Score:3, Funny)
It depends what your job is, but software developers should actually take a few moments and think about this and try to avoid naming their applications like cat, fsck, vi, nice, apt, sudo, etc.
Don't forget The Gimp!
Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps they could have William Shatner [youtube.com] run the ad campaign.