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"One product family. One platform. One store. Windows... One. Wait no, Ten."

This level of cluelessness from Microsoft's branding team would be stunning if it hadn't been the rule for a decade and more. The OS itself looks nice, though.

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The presenter said that Windows 1 had been done already, and showed a photo of Bill with a floppy disk.

Not sure what would be better - WinX? Windows One? WindOne? W1ndows?

Windows 1.0 was 28 years ago. There will be exactly zero confusion if they recycled the (IMO superior) name.

Until the next version.

Windows One 2? Windows 360? Windows 12?

We have already established the One comes after 360.

I thought it went one s, one x, one and one....

Where does OnePlus fall into all this?

Uhmm, my guess is they skipped 9 to avoid confusion with the 9x versions.

If this is true, then focus groups has failed the marketing team.

That didn't stop them from doing Xbox One.

Windows 9.

That's the thing about positive integers: you can't run out of them.

Tell that to 9223372036854775808.

Aleph-naught bottles of beer on the wall!

Aleph-naught bottles of beer!

Take one down, pass it around.

Aleph-naught bottles of beer on the wall!

Onedows.

I think they should think about the new wearable hardware that will be coming out and come up with a name that would evoke an image of working with apps in the air in front of you instead of on a screen/flat surface with a window. Like a Minority Report style interface.

Windows ten is just Windows one with nothing added.

Windows 9.999... = 10 :)

    Windows 10.
    As solid as 7.
    As simple as 3.

      -- Winamp Naming Team

Seriously it would not be Microsoft if they figured out how to name their products. The OS looks good but I also like 8.1.

Personally, I'm waiting for Windows Fuck It We're Going to Eleven.

Windows: taking it up to eleven.

I wonder if they aren't at least partly tweaking Apple here. Remember Apple also skipped version 9 of their operating system. Even system 8 was "phoned in". At least Microsoft didn't make us wait a decade between versions 7 and "X" while milking us for money with fake non-updates called "8" and "9" along the way.

They've never skipped an os version to my knowledge. For at sure, but that was to bring it in line with the whole x thing in the os

They called it "OS X" because "X" is the roman numeral for 10. They had been promising (and promoting) the new system for five years or more, but it was still years away, so they offered "system 8" and "system 9" which were mere incremental updates of system 7, not real OS versions. (But you had to pay for them because they had new numbers.)

No they didn't: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/09/my-coworkers-made-me-us...

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