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As earlier reported, Microsoft is now fully focused on fiocusng on the ever emerging cloud computing market, and after the huge downfall of vista, codename of the next version of windows was given dubbed “Strata”.

But today MS gave the new name to it’s next OS – Windows 7.

Microsoft vice president of Windows product management Mike Nash blogged Monday, Microsoft is adopting the current codename for the final product, for reasons best explained by himself.

Over the years, we have taken different approaches to naming Windows. We’ve used version numbers like Windows 3.11, or dates like Windows 98, or “aspirational” monikers like Windows XP or Windows Vista. And since we do not ship new versions of Windows every year, using a date did not make sense.

Windows really needs to inspire users to either upgrade or change their perspective, and Microsoft has done some work after the mojave experiment and signing up a $500m marketing campaign including that of the hilarious Jerry Seinfeld publicizing windows with Bill Gates. Linux is quickly being adopted in different tastes including the ever increasingly popular UBUNTU of canonical. And Bill Gates best friend Steve jobs isn’t far behind as we could see the apple MAC market share has increased 1% this year.

The best features will be that of the ever popular boasted multi touch user interface and increased driver support. Microsoft also said today that it has full intentions of releasing VISTA Service Pack 2 before windows 7. Here is the new logo MS gave.

Likewise, coming up with an all-new “aspirational” name does not do justice to what we are trying to achieve, which is to stay firmly rooted in our aspirations for Windows Vista, while evolving and refining the substantial investments in platform technology in Windows Vista into the next generation of Windows.

Here is an official video of the newly announced OS, which will further discussed in the upcoming PDC on 26th of this month.

Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore ‘Windows 7′ just makes sense.

What do you think, can Windows overshadow the failures of Windows Vista? Comment on it.