Comments on: Windows 7 Has a Name: Windows 7! Windows 7?

By: dsdevries

dsdevries — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:41:22 +0000

i’m thinking microsoft is trying to synchronise Windows’s release cycle with Windows Mobile’s.

a few weeks ago microsoft announced that the release of Windows Mobile 7 will be delayed from begin 2009 to midd 2009. About the same time Windows 7 will be released. coincident? maybe.

I’m not surprised if the next windows server will be called Windows Server 7. It’ll be a sleek naming convention.

By: Dan Overes

Dan Overes — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:54:32 +0000

As Greg says, it’s all based on the version of the NT kernel. MS never should have dropped the use of numbers for the OS version numbers in the first place.

NT 3.51
NT 4.0
2000 = NT 5.0
XP = NT 5.1
Vista = NT 6.0
7 = 7.0

By: John

John — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:08:25 +0000

Thanks for clearing it up. I was confused as confused as Harry as to how they got “7″. I still think 7 is stretching it though. Although we all know what the kernel is how many regular users do? But then again how many of them can name all the Windows releases and figure out it doesn’t come up to 7? Maybe Microsoft found out that there is some human physiological response to the number 7. Like how the color blue is calming. Maybe 7 invokes a feeling of security and well being.

By: TheWindowsFix

TheWindowsFix — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:16:29 +0000

I like it, keep it with the numbers, it works for the MAC, that’s obviously why they are doing it.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:41:37 +0000

I was corrected on another site… I should rephrase and say “seventh release based on the NT kernel”

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:33:18 +0000

It is called Win7 because it is the seventh iteration of the NT kernel:
1) NT 3.x
2) NT 4.0
3) Windows 2000
4) Windows XP
5) Windows 2003
6) Windows Vista/2k8
7) Windows 7

By: SaT

SaT — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:27:19 +0000

umm
this is just going real bad….

Not even beta and it has a RTM name….

Microsoft is skipping a lot now…

for some reason i feel now that 7 will be a new Windows ME
and even worse an incomplete Windows , last time i checked Windows on every new version they added new programs and new things not just Bug Fixes (like apple) but now everything seems to be moving to the Live Wave , it could be good but you will always need the base OS to be better than the services.

i hope 7 wont turn in to a bad WinME based on NT and Version 7

If Longhorn was ripped from its foundations / concepts. Windows 7 seems to be breaking from what Windows is…

i wonder what we will see at PDC or WinHEC..
a demo of… Windows Live Avalon! and Windows Live Notepad!
and how Windows now has nothing but Touch support and …. and…. a Office like UI?
oh and don’t forget the Castles demo errm i mean “Home Groups” and umm.. .NET 4 and… well looks like there are not new things on the new version…
just maybe better graphics, better sound , maybe a new UI , Office Like Apps, and tons of Installers to make Windows , feel like Windows.

As long as they don’t rip the clock and make it Windows Live Clock I think it will have some of the Windows concept…

I hope Steven gets the hell out of the Development or at least stop giving out “Great Ideas”