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Microsoft has confirmed that the next version of its operating system, which has so far been code named Windows 7, will infact be called Windows 7. There have been a few cases at Microsoft when the codename of a product was used for the final release,  but this is the first time a Windows will be released withs its code name aas its final one.

To the unacquainted, Windows 7 has been given this name because, well its the 7th version of Windows 7 and it is now believed that the name has been chosen to keep it simple and have the final product do the talking, rather than its hyped name.  A lesson that Microsoft must have learned from Vista.

Many do point out that the release is not Microsoft’s seventh at all. The Redmond giant has released Windows, Windows 2, Windows 3.0, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. They argue that this new edition should therefore be Windows 8 if Windows XP is counted as a release. If Windows XP is not counted because it is Kernel 5.1, then ‘Windows 7′ should be Windows 6.1 (Vista being the 6 and  ”Windows 7″ being the result of refinement to the Windows Vista technology).

Anyway, judging by the speed Microsoft is developing Windows 7 and considering the new name it seems that Microsoft intends to close the Vista chapter as quickly as possible.  Windows 7 was originally scheduled to be released in 2010, but apparently has been pulled into H2 2009.