Why the name windows 7

Tweek WAT? Cooldep Oh I'm sooooooo confused!!!! Vista's codename was Longhorn, but it's "real name" isn't Longhorn. And who knows what is the real name of the Windows 8??? I believe they change the decimal for minor upgrades the and number for major upgrades. If you run winver. Vista was a major release so it was 6. They were also trying to follow a timeline of a release every 3 years, alternating major and minor I think. The next should be the real Windows 7 and should probably contain huge changes such as WinFS new file system originally intended for use in Vista Saikat Basu The numbers were more of an internal thing.

For retail, they were given the names we know them with. Windows 7 was a departure. Here's why from the Windows Vista Blog :. While I know there have been a few cases at Microsoft when the codename of a product was used for the final release, I am pretty sure that this is a first for Windows. You might wonder about the decision. The decision to use the name Windows 7 is about simplicity.

Over the years, we have taken different approaches to naming Windows. And since we do not ship new versions of Windows every year, using a date did not make sense. Got an old PC knocking about and don't want to throw it away?

Here are some amazing ways to repurpose and reuse an old computer. And by the way, does anyone know how to call Windows 8? I like my Windows 5! First of all, I should point it out that there was actually another version, Windows , released between Me and XP. So if we follow the numbers, Windows 7 should really been Windows Well, Microsoft named them not by the official releases but the actual build of OS foundation. So really, Windows 95, 98, and Me are a series of Windows 4.

If we look closely, a lot of things are pretty much the same on both versions. Maybe, Microsoft wanted to have a fresh start that would eventually put the bad Vista way behind. More likely Microsoft wants to seperate from all previous versions of windows with a fresh start and also would like to take on more of the tone of the mac OS with a simpler number system.

They hope seven is their lucky number. What a load of rubbish. In the Christian centric world 7 is seen as a devine number. Everyon one but us oldies forget that there were a number of Windows versions before Windows 3 and they too carried strange build numbers. I don't remember specific version numbers from older versions of Windows, but essentially correct. Vista runs kernel version 6. Windows 7 was originally supposed to be kernel version 7.