Windows 7 branding leaks out

[steve.ledger]

You didn't think Microsoft was going to ship Windows 7 with that same tired Vista-esque branding it's been using on the betas and RCs, did you?
SOURCE: engadget

[The Alien]

What's that arrow for?

[Giovanni]

...backspace...

[ankhor]

What's that arrow for?

Chinese read from left to right.
So that is how you have to read the symbol
that stands above it

[wall]

I think that's Japanese Kanji, even though we do borrow the same expression occasionally, it's generally conceived as too "Japanese" for official usage...

[wall]

I take my previous comment back. It is in Chinese instead of Kanji. I'm a bit surprised though, as I still think the term is too "Japanese", hence may trigger unwanted impressions...

[Soquili]

Hi Wall,

Kanji is Chinese characters used in modern Japanese:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji

The sign in Sledger's post does look like one of the Katakana syllabary characters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana
However in this case I believe it is a stylized 7 rather than 'fu'.

BTW the Japanese also have another syllabary known as Hiragana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana

[steve.ledger]

Plenty of Box Art evidence on the web

More here

[wall]

Well...My excuse is that my native language (to be more precise, the writing characters we use) is "traditional Chinese", so I failed to tell the subtle differences between "simplified Chinese" and "Kanji" in this picture at the first sight. But I'm still pretty sure "初體驗" is a Japanese Kanji expression that I'd personally avoid using in formal Chinese writings, as it may provoke the historical animosities towards the Japanese by accident.

This is definitely something you don't want to bring out when branding a new OS in China...