>I don't see a smiley, so I'll assume you are serious...

Yes, I am. Why name something in regards to a year when you know that many users will see it obsolete within a period of two years.

>THAT is precisely WHY MS likes to use dates in product names. We hear lots of people here telling us that they are still forced to support Win95 systems. While these, apparently, are working well for them the most common reply here is to have those systems upgraded.

Yes, I understand this as a strategy so as forcing new releases of product every month. But, as a developer, this is overloading our task list.