When I heard about the naming of the Windows OSes following version numbers I was pretty excited…. Gone were Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows 95/98, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, etc. Long live Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9, etc.
Imagine my chagrin as I start reading that the next version of the OS, Windows 7 will come out as Windows 7 Client and …. Windows Server 2008 R2…
So the new name of the OS is Windows 7 except for where it is Windows Server 2008 R2… That certainly is going to help the confusion. Here I thought it was about finally getting to a decent naming scheme but maybe Apple is right in their commercials, it is just about MSFT trying to distance themselves from the perception of failure associated with the Vista name.
Brilliant move Microsoft. 🙁
I’m not too worried about the server version, anyone that is running or interested in Windows 2008 won’t be confused.
The general public doesn’t know or care about Windows 2008. All they are going to know is Windows 7.
I’m surprised Apple hasn’t started on the commercials about how Microsoft is already giving up on Vista.
I guess they want people to think it’s TOTALLY NEW on the desktop side so it’s not associated with Vista, while they want people to think it’s a “better and improved 2008” on the server, because most people will spend less time evaluating an R2 than they would evaluating a product with a totally new version name.
Windows 2000 rocked. Server, Workstation, clear and precise, and no need for 42 different “home/business/media/light” editions.
>Windows 2000 rocked. Server, Workstation, clear and precise
Actually, the last product called Workstation was NT4 Workstation. 🙂
With Win2000 came the quite more strange “professional”.