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What's up with "Window XP" and "Window 7"?

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We currently have:

If you're a frequent editor, you will probably have noticed this. Is Windows known under a different name in other places/languages?

It's not that this is a particularly urgent matter, but wouldn't it be possible to automatically fix these without the need to edit every single one?

Why?

  • It makes searching consistent, since our internal search isn't that great. E.g. Different results for "Windows 7" and "Window 7"
  • Manually looking through these posts might show low quality – we could use this as a starting point for more cleanups.

Actually, one could also fix

Am I being nit-picky or is this bugging others too? I just don't think it's very professional, and I always like our content to look more professional than on other sites. And this also includes the correct spelling of the worldwide number one operating system we all more or less use.

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