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#1 FaiKee

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Posted 14 July 2011 - 02:05

About 2 weeks ago, canouna of MDL posted a screen-shot of a new win8 build in the private chatbox, later it was posted by some member of PCPortal in the Russian site, and then posted by a BetaArchive member in BA.

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In this screen-shot, the position after "Windows" was covered. Later in the chatbox, canouna mentioned this was build 8033; also the covered space was the SKU name. But then why should he need to cover immediately after "Windows"? If it displayed "Windows 8" then there would simply be no need to cover it up.

A few days later, he mentioned in the chatbox that: In the win8 new builds, "Windows 8" is displaced by "Windows".

2 days ago, he posted in the MDL open forum the screen-shot of another win8 edition "Starter":

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Here, he also covered the windows name immediately before "Starter", but obviously he neglected another position: on comparing with the image of win7 starter, the lower line also shows the name of the windows edition "Windows 7", but on his screen-shot of the win8 starter it only showed "Windows".

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In answering to questions about this point, canouna made the open confirmation that, in the win8 new builds, the "8" is deleted.

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Now this is interesting, if the MS guys went thru all this process to remove the "8" in the win8 new builds, does it imply that they are going to abandon the name "Windows 8", and is proceeding to apply another name to this next version of windows?


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Posted 14 July 2011 - 02:07

windows 8 is just the code name for it at the moment, it will officially be named later on

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Posted 14 July 2011 - 02:19

I hope they just call it windows 8

#4 Zain Adeel

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Posted 14 July 2011 - 05:23

Well.. i was thinking... They cant call it windows :p

as the main UI has no windows.. they have moved to TILES.. they should be changing their name.. Even their Logo are 4 tiles..
I think they should rename it..

Call the Windows side Windows.. but the Tiles side something else completely. As its not windows. Even windows Phone 7 sounds weird. There are no windows in it.

Windows like BORDERED Boxes containing information.

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Posted 14 July 2011 - 06:19

Hmm, I hope it's something better than the name 'Vista'. Infact, any affiliation with Vista in the slightest won't end well, let's be honest.

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Posted 14 July 2011 - 06:36

They should just stick with "Windows [No.]" Windows 1.01 -> Windows 2.0 -> Windows 3 -> Windows 4 -> etc. is how it should have been all along. I've never cared for year-based version numbers or "cute" titles. Thus, they should just call it Windows 8.

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Posted 14 July 2011 - 08:16

windows nyancat I want that one!!! they should have nyancat as the progress bar and background! then they will be a nyanpad or paw pad. I want a pawpad with winyancat!!

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Posted 14 July 2011 - 08:28

View PostZain Adeel, on 14 July 2011 - 05:23, said:

as the main UI has no windows.. they have moved to TILES.. they should be changing their name..

I don't know where you got that information from, but it still uses windows just like every version has. There's a new UI for tablets and smart phones but it has nothing to do with desktop computers, and programs will still run in normal windows. In any case they would never change the name Windows no matter what happened.

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Posted 14 July 2011 - 10:56

that was my opinion.

And i say that becoz i think Microsoft should Brand this METRO UI as a totally new thing.. and renaming it would be nice if it can establish itself as a totally new way to work Data.

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Posted 14 July 2011 - 22:38

View PostZain Adeel, on 14 July 2011 - 10:56, said:

that was my opinion.

And i say that becoz i think Microsoft should Brand this METRO UI as a totally new thing.. and renaming it would be nice if it can establish itself as a totally new way to work Data.
I think you would be interested in this article:

http://thenextweb.co...as-you-know-it/

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Posted 14 July 2011 - 22:57

Windows 8 is fine by me. I don't want or need a fancy name!

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Posted 14 July 2011 - 23:06

Call it "Tiles 2.0" - as "Windows 1.01" in reality had no windows either but tiled all programs…
In case "Tiles 2.0" failes they could just revert to the Windows-naming scheme for the next OS…

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Posted 15 July 2011 - 06:39

im sure Tiles will have a cool sounding word in some other language :p

can anybody post some???

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Posted 15 July 2011 - 06:53

Tiles in albanian sound Plaaka! :p

MICROSOFT PLAAKA!

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Posted 15 July 2011 - 07:32

MS m.etro or windr or some hipster name like that.

(-->)metro

stylized like that with the round arrow thing. looks like a highway sign. but some people steal road signs. :(


a road sign as an OS.... take the next exit to a new operaating system from microsoft. metro.

OMG what have I done?

but what exit number? 8.

------exit 8---
| microsoft|
| >Metro |
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but dare call it metroOS and people would call it metroos or the great metrooski!!!! or if you call it OSM apple might get mad becuase it's too much like OSX. MOS would be too close to the Ministry Of Sound. mOS ... the same.