They trying to find a nice name for their best product until now....great if they asking for...finally will be a nice name...supposed Windows Millenium?
I don't think Windows Metro is suitable, it's the name for the UI, wouldn't be right to call Windows 8, metro.
My contribution (and reason I finally registered): Windows Live OS Windows 7 r2 The r2 is a bit of a joke, but I can see the other one. WLOS and then the next version WLOS2.
If I don't remember wrong, the MS CEO confirm it'll be windows 8. For me is just ridiculous, if you think that windows vista is 6.0, windows 7 is version 6.1 and windows 8 is 6.2, that mean are all born from the vista basis, keeping the same kernel, more or less. MS has fear to create a brand new kernel, may be for all the problems it can gives. From XP up to now everything is tested and constantly improved, a new kernel means to start back to zero, maybe in a situation like there was windows 98, where you had to format the HDD once per week.... This slide was showed at mid of november 2009 at Professional Developers Conference of Los Angeles And if you know what Ballmer said last 23rd May 2011 at developers conference in Japan: "We're obviously hard at work on the next version of Windows," Ballmer said, according to a transcript posted on Microsoft's own press site. "Windows 7 PCs will sell over 350 million units this year. We've done a lot in Windows 7 to improve customer satisfaction. We have a brand new user interface. We've added touch, and ink, and speech. And yet, as we look forward to the next generation of Windows systems, which will come out next year, there's a whole lot more coming. As we progress through the year, you ought to expect to hear a lot about Windows 8. Windows 8 slates, tablets, PCs, a variety of different form factors."
Does no matter how will be named i think will be the best Windows what I met....BTW Windows Live is a good name...
As I said METRO is a big store in my country....but they know better this kind of stuff and other like this...maybe the new system will be called Windows 8 with different versions...Home,Professional...etc.