According to the latest announcement by Microsoft, the latest version of Windows will be called as Windows 7 which would be coming out in couple of years. So now finally Microsoft is adopting a naming system for Windows that might actually make some sense to users, but some users might also feel that where & when did they miss the earlier 1 to 6 versions of Windows.

Windows actually had one of the most irrelevant naming systems, which started with Windows 3.1 which was somewhat logical but stupid naming system too. Then company adopted a mechanism to name its OS by the year which continued from Windows 95 to Windows 98.

Then came 1 of the worst versions of Windows which we’ve ever used Windows ME (Millennium Edition). Next up we hit Windows XP, which has served most of us reasonably well since 2001. It sounds sort of cool, it’s catchy, and we have no idea what it means.

Finally we had Windows Vista (earlier named Longhorn as it was declared) which seemed to stick with the naming convention of “something that sounds sort of cool but didn’t really mean anything”.

There was a long break between WIndows XP & Windows Vista due to the reason of some theft in codes by some hacker but i am not sure about this news in the past so don’t count on my words

Now Microsoft is pushing is quick since response to Vista was general dismal. The new naming scheme lends itself well to faster, more incremental releases similar to what we’ve seen from Apple (about once every 18 months), but it’s probably going to confuse everyone.

You can read more at the company’s blog post here

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