what will be the final name of Longhorn?


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you mean supersets, but I understand. As of right now, yes, MCE is a superset of XP Pro, but in the Longhorn era Microsoft will make MCE a superset of Home to keep the costs of MCE systems down. Probably. Obviously, I can't say that with 100% certainty but with the increased specialization of each SKU it makes sense.

It may seem confusing right now, but once SKUs and feature sets for each are finalized I'm sure it will become a lot clearer. :) The Home side of the SKU model is the easier of the two sides. I'm having a hard time imagining what differences a small business edition and professional edition would be. Perhaps THAT would be a bundling of Windows Pro and Office 12??? Thats the only thing I can think of that would be analagous to SBS (WS2k3 Std, Exchange and SQL)

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you mean supersets, but I understand. As of right now, yes, MCE is a superset of XP Pro, but in the Longhorn era Microsoft will make MCE a superset of Home to keep the costs of MCE systems down. Probably. Obviously, I can't say that with 100% certainty but with the increased specialization of each SKU it makes sense.

It may seem confusing right now, but once SKUs and feature sets for each are finalized I'm sure it will become a lot clearer. :) The Home side of the SKU model is the easier of the two sides. I'm having a hard time imagining what differences a small business edition and professional edition would be. Perhaps THAT would be a bundling of Windows Pro and Office 12??? Thats the only thing I can think of that would be analagous to SBS (WS2k3 Std, Exchange and SQL)

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A Longhorn SBE client clearly doesn't make any sense, since a "Small Business" is a "Business" and the Professional Edition is for "Businesses". ;)

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okay, I see that there is probably going to be Home, Premium, Pro, Small Business Edition and Tablet but my question is what is the differences between them. Like I'll probably get Premium for me but what is the differences between it and home?

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When have you seen an OS keeping his codename?

OS-2 / Warp from IBM

I think if it does not keep the Longhorn name then possibly:

Windows Generation 6

Off Topic:

Does anyone know if longhorn contains the pointless ctrl + scroll-lock scroll-lock feature of windows xp:

1. Start regedit.

2. Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters

3. Create a new DWORD value and name it CrashOnCtrlScroll

4. Right-click on this newly created value and click on Modify

5. Enter 1 in the Value data field and click on OK.

6. Close regedit and reboot your system.

7. Now you can blue screen (crash) your system by holding the right CTRL key and pressing "Scroll Lock" twice.

Absolutely pointless, but is it in longhorn?

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The official name will probably be...

Windows Professional 2006

Windows Server 2006

and other relative Editions

Because...

The client version of Windows 2003 (NT5.2) (Windows XP Professional, x64 Edition) is detected as

Windows Professional 2003, in WinZip...

Also several registry entries only show the product name Windows, and then the Edition, so no XP on some places...

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I don't believe they'll use a year-orientated name... this will date the OS too early. To me at least, "XP" still sound pretty fresh an new... it hasn't dated as much as it would have if it was called Windows 2001!

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The official name will probably be...

Windows Professional 2006

Windows Server 2006

and other relative Editions

Because...

The client version of Windows 2003 (NT5.2) (Windows XP Professional, x64 Edition)  is detected as

Windows Professional 2003, in WinZip...

Also several registry entries only show the product name Windows, and then the Edition, so no XP on some places...

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Longhorn Server is coming out in 2007, it cannot use the name of the year before. Remember what friendly executive said, "friendly names" for the client.

Windows Energi

Windows Play

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I doubt it will be named Windows 2006, it is kind of lame.  I expect it to follow of routes of having two letters to represent it like XP.  Something like Windows RX (Revolutionary eXperience).

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How about Windows $$? It has two characters? I don't think they are letters though, but they bestly describe Microsoft.

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How about Windows $$? It has two characters? I don't think they are letters though, but they bestly describe Microsoft.

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RX Sounds like a prescription.

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Windows 6.0

Windows for Workgroups 6.0

Windows Server 6.0

:cool: Old sk00L baby  :laugh:

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I wouldn't mind going back to the decimal point, but something about it is just too generic I think. Even Adobe is drifting away with the release of Creative Suite.

I also wouldn't mind moving away from the year thing.

Windows Energy - new professional edition

Windows Recreate - home and media edition

Windows Freedom - mobile edition for laptops and tablet pcs

Windows Flex - premium edition

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Get rid of the term "Windows"

We need something new, something that makes Microsoft's OS special.

Microsoft Client would be a good name.

Leave the windows name to embedded.

Instead of using years, you could use the update number to distinctify it.

eg;

Microsoft Client SP1 [10000022]

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Get rid of the term "Windows"

We need something new, something that makes Microsoft's OS special.

Microsoft Client would be a good name.

Leave the windows name to embedded.

Instead of using years, you could use the update number to distinctify it.

eg;

Microsoft Client SP1 [10000022]

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The word Windows is so easy to market, if you change name then you have to explain this is our new OS and its not called Windows any more etc.

Everyone and their dog knows Microsoft Windows name.

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Get rid of the term "Windows"

We need something new, something that makes Microsoft's OS special.

Microsoft Client would be a good name.

Leave the windows name to embedded.

Instead of using years, you could use the update number to distinctify it.

eg;

Microsoft Client SP1 [10000022]

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Please, do not make suggestions like that ever again, not even as a joke. Are you mad? The name "Windows" is so ubiquitous, it would just be asking for confusion and chaos, to contemplate such a thing. Yes, you could have told them to do that in August 1985, but not in the year 2005.

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