(TheForceField.Net ) October 14, 2008 — Windows 7, the code name for the next next version of Microsoft Windows, has now been given an official name – Windows 7.
In a post on the Windows Vista Team Blog yesterday, Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management, officially announced that the codename will now become the actual name of the new operating system, due sometime around 2010.
While Microsoft has occasionally used code names in the past on an actual release, this is the first time did so with Windows.According to Nash, it was a logical decision based on simplicity.
"We've used version numbers like Windows 3.11, or dates like Windows 98, or "aspirational" monikers like Windows XP or Windows Vista", Nash wrote in his blog. "And since we do not ship new versions of Windows every year, using a date did not make sense. Likewise, coming up with an all-new "aspirational" name does not do justice to what we are trying to achieve, which is to stay firmly rooted in our aspirations for Windows Vista, while evolving and refining the substantial investments in platform technology in Windows Vista into the next generation of Windows", Nash said.
According to Nash, calling the seventh version of Microsoft Windows "Windows 7" was the sensible thing to do.
Windows 7 will be unveiled in a pre-beta release to developers at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference to be held October 27-30 and at WinHEC November 5-7, 2008.
