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Started by NickC, Oct 14 2008 05:38 PM

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 05:38 PM

Hey,

I heard from one of my friends that the next OS for windows would be Windows 7! What is Windows 7 where did they get that name?

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 05:47 PM

The name Windows 7 is nothing new. It was the code name for the next windows and Microsoft decided to make the code name the official name. I believe a pre-release version was released to developers.

It'll probably look a lot like Vista but with most of the major issues fixed.

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 06:43 PM

Read this:

http://www.blogpirate.org/2008/10/13/windows-7-official-name-is/

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 07:46 PM

7 doesn't sound as bad as Vista, though it is a totally arbitrary number...
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Posted 14 October 2008 - 07:53 PM

Ohh, Is this is Windows Longhorn then they called it Vista instead?

Yeah... 7 is weird... we're going to have Windows 8, 9 , 10 , 11, 12.. until the numbers are finished lol

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 08:26 PM

Windows 7 seems really low since we already had Windows 2000 before.
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Posted 14 October 2008 - 08:49 PM

Windows >9000 anyone?
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Posted 15 October 2008 - 02:07 AM

7 is not an arbitrary number. It's the seventh official release of Windows.

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Posted 15 October 2008 - 02:46 PM

^What he said.

windows 3.1 -> windows 95 -> windows 98 -> windows 2000 -> windows xp -> windows vista -> windows 7

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Posted 15 October 2008 - 03:36 PM

2000 was based on NT, not DOS.
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Posted 15 October 2008 - 03:40 PM

He probably meant to put in Windows Me. The NT family pretty much paralleled the regular Windows family until Microsoft ditched DOS for good in Xp.

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Posted 18 October 2008 - 06:03 PM

What was windows ME was it similar to all the other Windows?
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Posted 18 October 2008 - 06:05 PM

It was a lousy release after 98, also DOS based.

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Posted 24 October 2008 - 05:35 PM

lol i had a windows ME for 8 years n trust me it ws not bad at all...as a matter of fact it was much better than the Xp in my point of view... i had a xp and a me...but as tme went on they stoped releasing updates for Me but i still found it beter untill it died last month xD... I found windows Me much and by much i mean MUCH faster and simpler

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Posted 16 March 2009 - 04:51 PM

Hope it'll have bugs fixed.
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Posted 16 March 2009 - 05:43 PM

Alot of people are content with XP and have not changed to Vista, will they change to 7. Windows 7 is so uncreative name. My college laptop will probably be Vista.
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Posted 16 March 2009 - 06:12 PM

Wow - talk about reviving dead topics.
I CANT WAIT FOR WINDOWS 7.

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Posted 16 March 2009 - 10:00 PM

I'm satisfied with xp. If it supports 64 bit then I might switch over depending on how intensive it is on a system.
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Posted 16 March 2009 - 10:54 PM

I have tried the Windows 7 beta and it has been great. (and this is coming from a mac user)

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Posted 18 March 2009 - 04:48 PM

They changed a lot since the beta, for the better as I heard.
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