{"id":366,"date":"2008-10-09T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/10\/09\/will-windows-7-get-a-new-name-for-its-release.aspx"},"modified":"2008-10-09T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T16:40:11","slug":"will-windows-7-get-a-new-name-for-its-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m reading more and more about Windows 7 lately as PDC approaches and Microsoft begins revealing more snippets of information about its most secretive product ever. In most of that coverage, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve noticed an assumption that Windows 7 is going to be the final name of the product. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been guilty of leaping to that conclusion myself. <\/p>\n<p>But a reader asked the other day why Microsoft is calling it Windows 7, and as I worked on my response to that question, it struck me that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s entirely possible, even likely, that the next release of Windows will get a new name before it hits the streets. (Keep reading, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll give you a chance to compare your prediction with mine.) <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Bott\/?p=558\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Bott\/?p=558\">http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Bott\/?p=558<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m reading more and more about Windows 7 lately as PDC approaches and Microsoft begins revealing more snippets of information about its most secretive product ever. In most of that coverage, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve noticed an assumption that Windows 7 is going to be the final name of the product. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been guilty of leaping to that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}