Windows 7 branding leaks out

[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...