It’s official. The final name of the product codenamed “
Windows 7″ will be “
Windows 7.”Mike Nash,
Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, Corporate Vice President,
Cheap Windows 7, Windows Product Management, announced the decision via the Windows Vista Team Blog on October 13.“(A)s you probably know,
Microsoft Office 2007 Pro, 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,
Office Home And Business, ‘
Windows 7.’”Microsoft is attributing the name choice to a desire for greater “simplicity.” (Funny, “clarity” was the same reason the Softies gave for going with Vista for the Windows release codenamed “Longhorn.”)I think the name choice is a good one. There’s no way Microsoft was going to stay on the Vista track,
Office 2010 Standard Key, with the negative perceptions many have of the current Windows release. So it’s on to numbers now for the product that increasingly seems like the “anti-Vista.” ….What do you think of Redmond’s decision to stick with
Windows 7 as the final name of the next release of Windows client, expected in late 2009?