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From this point on, the much anticipated update to Microsoft’s Windows product line will be referred to by its final release name as Windows 7. Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management, posted on the Windows Vista Blog that the operating has now been officially named "Windows 7windows 7 ".
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/windows...
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Must be due to the financial crisis. Otherwise they'd have called it something spectacular!
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It could be worse, they could have called it Windows Vista SE, considering from what I have read, it will be based on the same kernel, the same GUI and the same system requirments. I guess Gates was telling the truth when he said that Windows 7 will be no more then an intermediate update from Vista.
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I guess M$ chosen 7 for the obvious reason - the seventh successor in the line of Windows consumer (not business) editions/versions:
1. Windows 1 - Windows 3
2. Windows 2 - Windows 95
3. Windows 3 - Windows 98
4. Windows 4 - Windows Millennium
5. Windows 5 - Windows XP
6. Windows 6 - Windows Vista
7. Windows 7 - Windows 7i_Xp/VistaUser
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There was a Windows 1.x too before windows 3.x. That makes windows 7 actually windows 8.
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Ops I forgot about that one too (old age I guess). Shortly after Mike Nash's official announcement naming Windows 7 as Windows 7, he was bombardized with emails from the Windows community faithfuls that became very upset over the number '7'. Below is his second post about Why '7". (Apparently his post hasn't really explained why the '7')
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/w...
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See post two. I'm sure that is the reason.
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Yeah I don't really see why they would call it windows 7 either you had Windwos 1.x and windows 2.x. I mean if this was the case they should have called it Windows 9. Maybe the 7 stands for lucky number 7 as in lets hope we don't screw this version up. ;)
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Actually it is nothing to do with the lineage of ALL Windows versions, it is based on the OS/2 kernel lineage from the 80's ie:
OS/2 version 1
OS/2 version 2
NT3.xx
NT4
NT5 (Windows 2000)
NT5.1 (Windows XP)
NT6 (Windows Vista)
NT7 (Windows 7)So whoopee we will have a near 30 year old based operating system when Windows 7 is released, still younger than *NIX/BSD though!!
FYI: Windows 1 to Millenium are MS-DOS based......
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Yeah but even with that said if they were basing it on NT didn't they also have OS/2 version 3.0 that was released in 1994. So i mean shouldn't it be called Windows 8?
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Whoa! I don't know if Mike Nash is smoking something or not telling us the truth but the fact of matter is that Windows 7 was previously known by the code name Vienna, and that Windows 7 is the internal code name for the next client release of Windows. See this July 20, 2007 story posted HERE!
Back then the 2007 article drew 197 comments disputing M$ reasoning for calling it the seventh Windows. Maybe it's time to send Mike Nash back to his former position as the vice president overseeing MS Security Technology Unit!
EDIT
Furthermore, Wikipedia stated that Windows 7 was formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna.
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I guess when you type the command ver it shows 7.whoknows.
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Don't forget Windows 386
It's not that I can't remember things as I get older, it's just that my hard drive's full.
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