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If you're like most Windows XP users, you're perfectly willing to wait for Windows Vista Service Pack 13 to be released before upgrading. Well, there's good news. If you can hold out for three more years, you can skip over Vista entirely and get the next version of Microsoft's operating system, which the company is internally referring to as "Windows 7."

The announcement came at a sales force conference in Orlando this week. Microsoft plans to get back to releasing Windows upgrades on a regular schedule. Windows Vista was released more than five years after the last operating system, Windows XP.

But we kind of knew all that. So the only real news to come out of this sales force meeting is that Windows is no longer using the codename "Vienna" for the next operating system. The nomenclature behind "Windows 7" is a bit unclear though. The way we see it, the new OS should be called Windows 11. Or if you take out NT, Windows 10. Perhaps OS 10?
  1. Windows 1.0
  2. Windows 2.0/2.1
  3. Windows 3.0/3.1
  4. Windows 95
  5. Windows 98
  6. Windows ME
  7. Windows NT
  8. Windows 2000
  9. Windows XP
  10. Windows Vista
  11. Windows 7
Okay, so Microsoft's probably pretending that Windows 1 - 3.11 and NT don't count. But the company's got three years to come up with a snappier name than "Windows 7." Best get started soon.
[via Engadget]

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