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March 25th, 2010 @ The Royal Garden Hotel, London
The third annual PCR Awards is set to be the social event of the year for anyone involved in the PC retail sector, and a well deserved celebration for the nominees.
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Woking, Surrey
Software giant speaks out on new operating system title
After taking flack from members of the vocal internet community, Microsoft has explained its reasoning for calling its next operating system simply ‘Windows 7.’
To cut a long story short, the early Microsoft OS releases in the eighties and early nineties are termed simply as Windows 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 – however Windows 95, 98,98 SE and Millennium are all classed as Windows 4.0, while Windows 2000 is 5.0, XP is 5.1 and Vista is 6.0.
The classifications caused many users to share personal interpretations of Windows chronology on the internet, with wildly contrasting results.
Mike Nash, vice president of Windows product management said: "There's been a lot of lively discussion since I confirmed yesterday that the official name for the next version of the Window client operating system will be 'Windows 7' about how we got to the number '7'. I'll say upfront that there are many ways to count the releases of Windows, and it's been both a trip down memory lane and quite amusing to read all the different theories about how we got to the number."
Link: Computer World
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Tentative names included Windows Blackcomb, Windows Vienna, WindOS X, Windows Steak and Bl*wj*bs Edition!!! (which proved in beta testing to be Tofu and Long Querulous Discussion About Where Our Relationship Is Going Edition) and Windows 2007^W2008^W2009^W2010.
Blog rant: http://tinyurl.com/3l8pws
Does it really matter what it is called as long it works well, is secure, consists of one good version and is competitively priced (shades of MacOSX)
who gives a tosswhat its called as long as it works first time sorry how stupid of me to think that bill ripof would give the brits something that actually works first time or charge us the same price as they charge yanks no he is to greedy for that after somebody has got to pay for the development of his crap software you got it is always the brits
