Comments on: If the Live team was responsible for branding Windows Vista

By: Penguin13

Penguin13 — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:49:52 +0000

Is there a possibility for a student edition of said product? :~)

By: fred

fred — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:25:57 +0000

you guys hav too much free time… get a hobbym GOSH… dont u hav anything beter to do than debate how windows names its stuff…

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Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:05:48 +0000

[...] Long Zheng has done a mockup of what Windows Vista would be named if the Windows Live team named it. It’s a bit complicated, but I think it comes out to: Microsoft Windows Live XP 07 for Workgroup PCs Plus! Ultimate Extras “N” built on NT and XP technologies (32-bit and 64-bit edition) with advanced security & Internet Explorer [Tablet PC and Media Center enabled] [...]

By: appwiz

appwiz — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:13:21 +0000

How about appending the obligatory beta^H^H^H^H^H CTP suffix to every brand name?

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:00:25 +0000

Why is it that ZUNE and XBOX got nice simple sexy names….

But The software teams are complete IDIOTS with naming

WINDOWS PRESENTATION FOUNDATION SUCKS… AURORA and AVALON WERE SEXY

Microsoft needs to stop being so damn corporate with their naming, what do they need j. allard in charge of naming all their products to get decent names???

I vote for J as the next head of microsoft!

By: tino

tino — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:50:13 +0000

@Peacho: Why name every service? “Mail me via Windows Live” or “try to search this with Windows Live” would be enought, IMO.

By: Peacho

Peacho — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:08:13 +0000

So how would one pronounce that name above? And wow, yeah, this whole thing’s quite a mess. Look how much easier it is to say, “Windows Live Mail” versus “Windows Live Hotmail”. Sure it’s just one extra syllable, but doesn’t the former flow a bit better?

Thee is also a few good comments at http://liveside.net/blogs/opinion/archive/2007/02/09/enough-branding-j okes-why-windows-live-hotmail-is-a-good-name-that-s-bad.aspx about the domain issue.

I guess on the plus side, we can then call it WLH, thereby elmininating one of the WLMs (one for Mail, one for Messenger).

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:24:53 +0000

@Tino: Your right dude, they don’t know what to show to people because everyone is looking for something else. Are they playing catch up to Mac? No, they are just putting it in there to appease some people. Everyone customizes their XP’s to the point where it can look like JoeSmoe1.0. Mac users, as far as i have noticed… keep their default look. Which is nice. Xp’s isn’t so nice. But some quick changes, like the Royal Noir Theme, make it nice.

By: Martien

Martien — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:38:25 +0000

Can’t wait for the next release of Windows Live MSN Hotmail Messenger v9.0 beta

By: The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:00:38 +0000

Long Zheng interviews Hamad Darwish about those Windows Vista wallpapers

Following up.