Mike Nash, Microsoft vice president for Windows Product Management, made a blog post earlier today on the Vista blog stating that Window 7 will be the official name of... Windows 7.
Quote:And, as you probably know, since we began development of the next version of the Windows client operating system we have been referring to it by a codename, "Windows 7." But now is a good time to announce that we've decided to officially call the next version of Windows, "Windows 7."
That's a bit lackluster. The really confusing thing is that Window 7 is really Windows 6.1. Windows NT was v4.0, 2000 was v5.0, XP was v5.1, Server 2003 is v5.2, and Vista is v6.0. Windows 7 is v6.1, which you can see at any command prompt. Can you imagine a support call about this?
Techie: Are you running Windows 7?
N00b: Well, no, it says here that I'm running Windows 6.1...
Techie:
Facepalm.Seriously retarded. Hopefully Microsoft will at least have the foresight to increase their product number to 7.0 to match the title. Of course, since Windows 7 is just an incremental upgrade to Windows Vista (much like XP was to 2000), that doesn't make sense either.
-b0b
(...better than Vista, I guess.)