Windows 8 May NOT be called Windows 8: Foley Reports

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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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MightyJordan

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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

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Jen Smith

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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.

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Mystic Mungis

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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 :)

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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).

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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.

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Max Norris

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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.

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