This news isn’t really a surprise. To end all debates and perhaps make things formal, Microsoft announced that the name of their upcoming operating system will be Windows 7.

Windows 7 has been the codename used for the 7th release of Windows since they decide that Blackcomb and Vienna don’t really fit the OS.

Windows 7 will be the OS the will replace Windows Vista. Of course since Windows Vista isn’t much of a success (according to critics and software analysts) the question now is whether 7 would be a lucky number for the big company. This question logically cannot be answered as of this writing, but general manager of Microsoft Mike Nash believes that it will be.

Software analysts notice that Microsoft changed its nomenclature standards from putting numbers to putting “aspirational” words. Experts agree that names like Windows 3.11 or dates like Windows 98 won’t really work since Microsoft do not release Windows every year, a fact the Mike Nash himself agrees.

But then again, as William Shakespeare put it, what’s in a name, by which we call a rose by any other name, would smell as sweet? Here’s what PopuTech has to say, what’s in an OS, no matter what you call it, if it acts like crap, it will appear like crap (and yes we are referring to Windows Vista).

You ran out of power.