:: Deepquest ::

Sources inside Microsoft say that a secret search is on for two letters that are cooler in combination than X and P.
“When we named NT, we didn’t even consider the “cool” factor–we just got lucky.”
“Of course, we learned our lesson naming Windows after the calendar year. Sure, that worked in the nineties, but what were we going to call XP, ought two?”

Windows Me was, of course, a compromise. When The Bill decided that NT 5 would be called Windows 2000, we were left high and dry on a name for the Y2K edition of Windows 98. ‘Millenium Edition’ just sort of fell out of the process and we went with it. Nobody was entirely happy with it.”

“But we really upped the anty with XP–it was the zeitgeist of 2002. There may be no cooler pair of letters, except perhaps XL, which we obviously can’t use.”

“We’ve been playing with some combinations, you know, things like GT, VX, TR, SL, and so on. But we’re not there yet. There’s 676 combinations, and we’re considering everyone of them. Except FU. So that’s 675 combinations that we’re considering. And PU, that’s not going to make the cut. So 674.”