Windows 7 officially named Windows 7

Robert Hallock 13 Oct, 2008 at 7:13pm ET Article published in Tech

That is the refreshing sound of sanity blowing out of Redmond, WA as the official Windows 7 blog announces that Microsoft’s next operating system is officially named Windows 7.

Comments

13 Oct 2008 ~ 7:19pm fatcat good.
13 Oct 2008 ~ 7:33pm jared Hell of a lot better that Vista.

Already of to a good start i'd say.
13 Oct 2008 ~ 8:05pm primesuspect This is Microsoft's last chance to fix what they did horribly wrong with Vista.

Lose the marketing bullshit. Focus on a solid product, and do what you are GOOD at, MS. Please!
13 Oct 2008 ~ 8:21pm Colgere As I said on IRC, with Windows, failure is never an option. It comes bundled with every install...
14 Oct 2008 ~ 1:35am NiGHTS ...I guess I fail to see how giving a name to a product is a bad thing.
14 Oct 2008 ~ 2:35am Leonardo Windows 7. Hmm, that does have a nice, no-nonsense ring to it. Hope the name is indicative of the contents and not just a snappy symbol.
14 Oct 2008 ~ 11:56am UPSLynx Windows 7? Ok, I can deal with that.

But when is Microsoft going to get it? Their product branding sucks!

Windows 3.1. Windows 95,98,2000. Windows ME. Windows NT, XP. Windows Vista. Windows 7.

What a mess. Consistency is such a solid foundation, and Microsoft sucks at it.
14 Oct 2008 ~ 11:57am Thrax Everyone, and I mean <i>everyone</i> knows that Windows Vista is newer than XP. Is consistency really that important?
14 Oct 2008 ~ 12:34pm bothered

UPSLynx wrote:

Windows 7? Ok, I can deal with that.

But when is Microsoft going to get it? Their product branding sucks!

Windows 3.1. Windows 95,98,2000. Windows ME. Windows NT, XP. Windows Vista. Windows 7.

What a mess. Consistency is such a solid foundation, and Microsoft sucks at it.

Doesn't seem to have hurt them much though, eh?
14 Oct 2008 ~ 12:57pm BuddyJ I'll wait until 7.1.
14 Oct 2008 ~ 4:20pm UPSLynx I'm not arguing whether it's hurt the company or not.

But in my eyes, their image is terrible.

It makes it look like they run a sloppy shop and they don't really know what they want.

I'm glad they've stuck to functional simplicity. I hope they stick with it this time.
15 Oct 2008 ~ 1:29am Winga

UPSLynx wrote:

Windows 3.1. Windows 95,98,2000. Windows ME. Windows NT, XP. Windows Vista. Windows 7.

What a mess. Consistency is such a solid foundation, and Microsoft sucks at it.

If Microsoft's math is anything to go by and how they arrived at the number 7 despite making their latest offering version 6.1 then I must agree.

Buddy J wrote:

I'll wait until 7.1.

If they making 7 version 6.1 then you'll miss out on Windows 7 completely
15 Oct 2008 ~ 3:20am shwaip

Buddy J wrote:

I'll wait until 7.1.

i'm waiting for windows 7.11 - windows 7 for slurpies.