Windows 8 May NOT be called Windows 8: Foley Reports

[FMH]

Extract from: http://www.zdnet.com...le_skin;content

Let's help Microsoft name Windows 8

It?s easy to forget that?Windows 8? is just a code name. When Microsoft Windows

Chief Steven Sinofsky finally uttered the words ?Windows 8? in an official capacity earlier this year, he made a point of noting it was nothing but a codename.

Extract from: Many of us have assumed that Microsoft will call Windows 8 client ?Windows 8? when it is released, given that it?s the follow-up to Windows 7. But maybe that?s not the case?.

I?ve gotten a couple of tips in recent months from various sources cautioning me that Windows 8 may not be the final name of the next version of Windows client. My tipsters didn?t spill a list of potential candidates under consideration. But they did note that Windows 8 is nothing but a codename. One of the supposed reasons: Microsoft wants to make it clear that Windows 8 is a break from the past, and, as its execs repeatedly claim, the biggest Windows release since Windows 95. Therefore, a new and different name is in order.

In a September 7 blog post about Hyper-V?s inclusion in Windows 8, company officials actuallyused quotation marks around the name ?Windows 8? as Windows watcher Paul Thurrott noted. As my ZDNet colleague Ed Bott added, Microsoft didn?t use this convention when referring to Windows 7. Aha! The codename-plot theory thickens?.

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Their are some great(and a some lot of bad ones too) name suggestions in comments. Any good suggestions at Neowin?

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[.Neo]

Microsoft Windows Live Operating System 2012 Starter/Home/Professional/Enterprise/Ultimate, or something "catchy" like that...

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Microsoft Windows VI 6.2 'Saint Bernard'

[Wolfbane]

Windows ? sounds good.

[White Man]

Windows Vista 2

[FMH]

Windows ? sounds good.

It's my favourite too. Another good suggestion was LiveOS, since it will have very tight integration with it.

[Quillz]

I really hope they just call it Windows 8. Simple and to the point.

[Rigby]

Windows 7 was a code name too, this proves nothing.

[MightyJordan]

Windows ? sounds good.

It does indeed, but sadly, it'd be a bit of an ironic name when "Windows Infinity" (or Infinite) gets replaced by a newer version later on. :p

[+Heartripper Subscriber¹]

I really hope they just call it Windows 8. Simple and to the point.

I do agree

[Jen Smith]

Windows ? sounds good.

Could be confused with Visual Studio's logo, plus as mentioned above, a little awkward after the next version is released.

I really hope they just call it Windows 8. Simple and to the point.

Perfect. Doesn't need any silly names.

[Brian Miller]

Windows^?

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[Mystic Mungis]

Yeah I agree with Jen could easily be confused with Visual Studio, Windows 8 sounds like the successor of Windows 7, an improved version so I'd just stick with it :)

[Zain Adeel]

what about Infin8

[Calum Veteran]

I did quite like the Windows Flux suggestion. I think it would be fine for them to go for a whole new naming convention, but only if the next major version of Windows Phone follows a similar convention (unless Windows and Windows Phone become one).

[FMH]

I really hope they just call it Windows 8. Simple and to the point.

I know, but Sinofsky called it "Windows 8" in the last few BUILD articles, as said so in the ZDnet article. So it could happen.

[leesmithg]

Windows Olympian would be good.

I prefer Windows Eight rather than 8.

As long as they do not ask the cretin that named Vista, his/her opinion.

[FMH]

I just got a brilliant suggestion! Some fellow Neowinians may have noticed my use of the term W8.

Their you have it, the Windows 7predecessor is:

W8

[the better twin]

I just got a brilliant suggestion! Some fellow Neowinians may have noticed my use of the term W8.

Their you have it, the Windows 7predecessor is:

W8

I dont think using a term associated with being slow is a good idea.

[drdrew]

In honor of the Firefox rapid release cycle, why not: Windows 15.0 (codename Windows 8). :)

[Max Norris]

I really hope they just call it Windows 8. Simple and to the point.

This. Everybody knows Windows, doesn't need a gimmicky name to try and draw attention to itself like some minority OS.

[FMH]

I dont think using a term associated with being slow is a good idea.

Oh.... are you refering to Windows itself, or is their something slow about W or 8? :huh:

[Jen Smith]

Oh.... are you refering to Windows itself, or is their something slow about W or 8? :huh:

W8 as in "wait", and I agree, definitely not something you typically want to associate with a product.

[FMH]

W8 as in "wait", and I agree, definitely not something you typically want to associate with a product.

:laugh: rofl

HAHAHA! How did I missed that??

[Zain Adeel]

they could market it like

Microsoft's new OS is Legend W8 for it......... Dary!!!!!!!!