It has been suggested recently by tech bloggers that the product currently codenamed "Windows 8", may not end up being called "Windows 8" at all. Here are some of the more commonly proposed names, that will probably never happen: Windows 8 Why it's the most probable: Do we need to say it? Windows 7 was codenamed "Windows 7" right from the get-go, and ended up being called that because it just made sense (though many would argue that it only made sense if you counted...
Those of you who have been following my blog closely (even those of you who don’t read Hebrew), know that there’s one particular feature of Windows 7 which I was overtly excited about. That feature is the much anticipated and eventually disappointing “Device Stage” . Device Stage was supposed to be this window that pops up when you connect a device to your computer. Any device. The Window’s icon would be a photo-realistic icon of that device, and the stage would allow you to sync files, see battery...
Why "Device Stage" is starting to look like a failed promise...