Microsoft shortens Windows name

"Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67.TakeThisOut@ezrs.com> wrote
 > shorted to "for X64". Eg. Windows XP Pro for X64
 > or Windows Server 2003 for X64.

Will there be a Home edition?


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"Ed Light" <nobody RemoveThis @nobody.there> wrote in message
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 > "Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67 RemoveThis @ezrs.com> wrote
  > > shorted to "for X64". Eg. Windows XP Pro for X64
  > > or Windows Server 2003 for X64.
 >
 > Will there be a Home edition?

The Home edition seems to be somewhat dysfunctional - they're thinking about
calling it X Spouse. It was going to be finalized in a matter of weeks, but
attorneys for both parties are dragging matters out and it's getting very
messy.

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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:02:37 -0700, "Stubby Boardman" <sb.TakeThisOut@azkaban.gov>
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 >"Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67.TakeThisOut@ezrs.com> wrote in message
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 >| The previously named Windows XP and 2003 "64-bit edition for 64-bit extended
 >| systems" has now just been shorted to "for X64". Eg. Windows XP Pro for X64
 >| or Windows Server 2003 for X64.
 >|
 >| Looks like Microsoft has decided on X64 as the universal moniker for all
 >| X86-64 marketing names.
 >|
 >| Yousuf Khan
 >|
 >
 >How many staff meetings did it take for them to think up 'X64'
 >I wonder?

Probably none. It sounds to me like the middle management was off
having countless staff meetings to decide on "64-bit edition for
64-bit extended systems" while everyone actually doing the work just
ignored all that garbage and decided on 'X64'.

Then, after the bean counters figured out that the staff-meeting name
was going to require them to completely redesign the box, labels and
all marketing material because it was just too long, someone figured
on the bright idea of completely ignoring the morons who thought of
this name in the first place and just using 'X64', which is what
everyone was calling it in the first place.


Ok... maybe that's just my version of the events without having
actually been involved in any way :>

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Stubby Boardman wrote:
  >> Looks like Microsoft has decided on X64 as the universal moniker for
  >> all X86-64 marketing names.
  >>
  >> Yousuf Khan
  >>
 >
 > How many staff meetings did it take for them to think up 'X64'
 > I wonder?

Probably one more than the one that came up with "64-bit Edition for 64-bit
Extended Systems".

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Ed Light wrote:
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 > "Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67 RemoveThis @ezrs.com> wrote
  > > shorted to "for X64". Eg. Windows XP Pro for X64
  > > or Windows Server 2003 for X64.
 >
 > Will there be a Home edition?

Since M$ used Rolling Stones 'Start me up' for promoting Win95,
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LOL!

IIRC, "I can't get no satisfaction" was used for Win95?

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 > Ed Light wrote:
  > >
  > > "Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67.RemoveThis@ezrs.com> wrote
   > > > shorted to "for X64". Eg. Windows XP Pro for X64
   > > > or Windows Server 2003 for X64.
  > >
  > > Will there be a Home edition?
 >
 > Since M$ used Rolling Stones 'Start me up' for promoting Win95,
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"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr RemoveThis @earthlink.net> wrote in message
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 > LOL!
 >
 > IIRC, "I can't get no satisfaction" was used for Win95?
 >

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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:26:50 GMT, "Lee Waun" <leewaun.TakeThisOut@telus.net> wrote:

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 >"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr.TakeThisOut@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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  >> LOL!
  >>
  >> IIRC, "I can't get no satisfaction" was used for Win95?
  >>
 >
 >Nope it was "Start me Up" for win95
 >
Later it was changed to....
(Try to) Start Me Up

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Lee Waun wrote:
 > "Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr DeleteThis @earthlink.net> wrote in message
 > news:xwIVc.8681$3O3.5084@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
  >> LOL!
  >>
  >> IIRC, "I can't get no satisfaction" was used for Win95?
  >>
 >
 > Nope it was "Start me Up" for win95

He was trying to be clever.

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"Lee Waun" <leewaun.DeleteThis@telus.net> writes:

 > "Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr.DeleteThis@earthlink.net> wrote in message
 > news:xwIVc.8681$3O3.5084@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
  > > LOL!
  > >
  > > IIRC, "I can't get no satisfaction" was used for Win95?
  > >
 >
 > Nope it was "Start me Up" for win95

Though they edited the song to removed the line "You make a grown
man cry".

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In <86vff94m6r.fsf.RemoveThis@number6.magda.ca>, on 08/23/04
at 04:46 PM, David Magda <dmagda+trace040726@ee.ryerson.ca> said:


 >Though they edited the song to removed the line "You make a grown man
 >cry".

It would do them no good to plainly state the obvious! )))

Nelson

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