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I woke up this morning here in Vegas for CES seeing some chatter on the Internet about the final name for Windows Home Server Code Name Vail, and I can say it is NOT Windows 7 Home Server.
I have spoken with the Windows Home Server team at Microsoft and they have also confirmed that the name is not Windows 7 Home Server. And if you think about, why would it be?
So, if you read that it is, take it with a pinch of salt!
Funny, when I asked a MS rep. told me that it is indeed the official name for Windows Home Server Code Name "Vail".
…hmmm :rolls eyes:
They better give the real name soon because since the DE killing announcement, it's been way too easy to make fun of the code name VAIL. The marketing department is way behind on the branding now. Their letting these interwebs brand the OS for them. I'd like for it to succeed but I'd also like for it to build upon the current version, not take away. Or at least give us something like Media Center to make up for the feature loss.
What does it matter what it is called if it won't be released? Enough of a reason for me now to dump C# and move to Java.
lol wut?
Who said it wont be released? It will be released, its just not very likely there will be huge take up!
It matters that there is not more misinformation about Vail going around, which is why i posted that it was not correct, otherwise we will see days of people commenting on Windows 7 naming!
I have (until recently) an HP MediaSmartServer and a small network with an HP Netbook, a home brewed desktop, and a ThinkPad laptop along with various other peripherals. Since the WHS DE announcement a few weeks ago, I have largely given up on Microsoft and HP. I am amazed at how fast my transformation is happening. Gone is the netbook and the HP printer. Gone is the desktop. I have started the switch to Apple and have a MacBook Pro, an iPad, an iPhone, an Apple TV. It all works and it just feels like I have jumped ahead a decade – no more freezes, hang ups, and weird unexplained quicks. The HP MediaSmart server is still muddling along and I use it to backup with Apple's Time Machine, but it is only a matter of time before that is gone. I think MS really dropped the ball by essentially killing of WHS.
Seriously hope they will not name it Windows 7 Home Server. Win7 is the first Windows I've actually not minded using since I moved to Mac OS. To sully its good name with the impending disaster that is Vail … would be regrettable.
Don't worry – they wont call it that 🙂
I could care less what the name is. I just want to see the finished product ASAP.
If you don't think this way, you belong in an Applestore.