[kde-promo] Plasma Next Naming

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Wed Jan 22 18:48:19 UTC 2014


On Wednesday 22 January 2014 19:29:24 Mark Gaiser wrote:
> > Let me give a different example from the same area - do you remember
> > Windows Longhorn? Everyone was talking about "Longhorn" always and how
> > revolutionary and new it will be...and then, Windows Vista came out. From
> > the very same company, Windows Vienna turned into Windows 7. And many
> > others could be found.
> 
> The comparison isn't fair.
> The name change from Longhorn to Vista had cost Microsoft billions!
> Literally. The change from Vienna to 7 wasn't that big of a deal since

not that the fact that vista sucked had anything to do with the name..
they always did it btw, their most successful release ever was named whistler 
until days before the release, not that anybody cared or most people even knew 
the codename of xp...

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Marco Martin


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