It’s Official: Windows 8 Name Confirmed

Microsoft have switched naming policies for its main operating system a few times since Windows 1.0 was released in 1985:

We had Windows 1.0, Windows 20 and then Windows 3.0/3.1Then Microsoft switched to years to name its consumer OS , starting with Windows 95 and then followed up by Windows 98 and Windows 2000Windows ME in 2000 saw a switch to product names (although ME did stand for ‘Millennium Edition’).  Hot on the heels of ME was Windows XP in 2001, which was replaced by Windows Vista in 2007.

Finally we had Windows 7, which at first was just a codename (previous codename was ‘Vienna’), buy eventually became the product name.  To read Why Windows 7 is version ’7', read this post.

The replacement to Windows 7 was again codenamed ‘Windows 8‘, but as pointed out on our sister site Windows 7 News, Microsoft have just confirmed that Windows 8 will be the official name for the next Build.  Let’s hope that at the conference held in September 2011, Microsoft release more details about Windows 8 release date.

At least we won’t need to change the name of this site!  I can’t wait to hear the next startup sound!

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