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There's been a lot of speculation as to what the official product name of
the next version of Dimdows will be. It seems pretty clear that the "Vista"
name will be dropped, because of all the bad associations that's generated.

So what will be the name? I think it's time to drop "Windows" as well. That
was something dreamt up back in Microsoft's more geeky days, when they
realize they had to put together a GUI product to look good next to Apple.
It's getting on to a quarter of a century old, so time for a change.

You've got to have something that sounds vaguely good, yet not stand out too
much, because otherwise you run the risk of offending someone somewhere.
Kind of like a typical Dimdows error message, really.

So I'm thinking, for the consumer versions, how about "Microsoft User
Experience"? Like "Microsoft User Experience 2009 Holiday Season Edition"?
Also available as "Microsoft User Experience Family Value Economy Edition"?
With "Microsoft User Experience Enhanced Entertainment Booster Pack"?

For business versions, something more serious-sounding: "Microsoft Support
Platform"? "Microsoft Deployment Platform"? "Microsoft Applications
Infrastructure"? "Microsoft Corporate Enterprise Implementation
Architecture"? "Microsoft Systems Concept Architecture"?

Any of that make you feel like sticking your finger down your throat?

"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <_zealand> wrote in message
news:gckfgg$vcf$...
> There's been a lot of speculation as to what the official product name of
> the next version of Dimdows will be. It seems pretty clear that the
> "Vista"
> name will be dropped, because of all the bad associations that's
> generated.
>
> So what will be the name? I think it's time to drop "Windows" as well.
> That
> was something dreamt up back in Microsoft's more geeky days, when they
> realize they had to put together a GUI product to look good next to Apple.
> It's getting on to a quarter of a century old, so time for a change.
>
> You've got to have something that sounds vaguely good, yet not stand out
> too
> much, because otherwise you run the risk of offending someone somewhere.
> Kind of like a typical Dimdows error message, really.
>
> So I'm thinking, for the consumer versions, how about "Microsoft User
> Experience"? Like "Microsoft User Experience 2009 Holiday Season Edition"?
> Also available as "Microsoft User Experience Family Value Economy
> Edition"?
> With "Microsoft User Experience Enhanced Entertainment Booster Pack"?
>
> For business versions, something more serious-sounding: "Microsoft Support
> Platform"? "Microsoft Deployment Platform"? "Microsoft Applications
> Infrastructure"? "Microsoft Corporate Enterprise Implementation
> Architecture"? "Microsoft Systems Concept Architecture"?
>
> Any of that make you feel like sticking your finger down your throat?

Apparently its being called "Vienna" from what I heard the other day in
an IT shop

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:31:12 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> There's been a lot of speculation as to what the official product name of
> the next version of Dimdows will be. It seems pretty clear that the "Vista"
> name will be dropped, because of all the bad associations that's generated.
>
> So what will be the name? I think it's time to drop "Windows" as well. That
> was something dreamt up back in Microsoft's more geeky days, when they
> realize they had to put together a GUI product to look good next to Apple.
> It's getting on to a quarter of a century old, so time for a change.
>
> You've got to have something that sounds vaguely good, yet not stand out too
> much, because otherwise you run the risk of offending someone somewhere.
> Kind of like a typical Dimdows error message, really.
>
> So I'm thinking, for the consumer versions, how about "Microsoft User
> Experience"? Like "Microsoft User Experience 2009 Holiday Season Edition"?
> Also available as "Microsoft User Experience Family Value Economy Edition"?
> With "Microsoft User Experience Enhanced Entertainment Booster Pack"?
>
> For business versions, something more serious-sounding: "Microsoft Support
> Platform"? "Microsoft Deployment Platform"? "Microsoft Applications
> Infrastructure"? "Microsoft Corporate Enterprise Implementation
> Architecture"? "Microsoft Systems Concept Architecture"?
>
> Any of that make you feel like sticking your finger down your throat?

The official name will be "Microsoft Windows Victorious".

-ws

In message <mpk2s5->, thing2 wrote:

> Will Spencer wrote:
>
>> The official name will be "Microsoft Windows Victorious".
>
> ah the triumph of make believe over reality then....

"Microsoft People's Republic of Glorious Vanquishment of our Enemies"

In message <gckfgg$vcf$>, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> There's been a lot of speculation as to what the official product name of
> the next version of Dimdows will be. It seems pretty clear that the
> "Vista" name will be dropped, because of all the bad associations that's
> generated.

OK, it's officially going to be called "Windows 7". This in spite of the
fact that its version number is actually 6.1
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=569>.

Wouldn't you say that's deliberately trying to mislead customers?