posted on October 29, 2008 by Bryant Zadegan
For those wondering, Mike Nash is (according to his business card) the “Corporate Vice President” for “Windows Product Management.”
Mike held a small roundtable for a number of pressies. He gave a quick rundown of things you all basically already know, so I took the time to ask a few questions which kept you guys in mind. The questions I asked:
- What’s the difference between “API Complete” (build 6801) is and “Feature Complete” (Beta 1)?
- Why were lots of code samples and features being shown off for the Superbar at PDC when developers can’t develop for it? (Rafael’s extension of my API v. Feature Complete question)
- Why were the sensor demonstrations missing from the Windows 7 keynote today?
The answers to these questions can be found in the true-to-life* transcript after the break.
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posted on October 13, 2008 by Bryant Zadegan
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Mike Nash, former Security Guru and current Client Guru over at Microsoft, has just announced on the Windows Vista Blog that the new name for Windows “7” will be:
…which makes me wonder why it’s going to be NT 6.1.
It also means that Windows Strata will likely be the codename for the new Cloud OS discussed by Ballmer earlier this month. We’ll carry more about all of this from PDC in two weeks.
Update: Brandon followed up with me on twitter saying it’s the 7th release of Windows, which is ridiculous:
- Windows
- Windows 2
- Windows 3.0
- Windows NT (NT 4)
- Windows 2000 (NT 5)
- Windows XP (NT 5.1)
- Windows Vista (NT 6)
That’s 7 releases right there, including XP. If XP isn’t counted because it’s Kernel 5.1 (which would bring the total with Windows 7 back down to seven), then why is Windows 7 being counted as the “seventh” release if it’s kernel 6.1? I hope I’m not the only one seeing the naming problem here.
Kernel increments are used mostly for application compatibility purposes, but still, the logic is lost upon us as most people would count XP as a semi-major release in comparison to 2000. I hope the guys at the Blog have an update, because this is weird.
More potential views of how this could have worked (Update 2: as well as Mike’s clarification) after the break.
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