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Matthew writes: Microsoft has announced that after a two-year search for two letters cooler than X and P they have given up in failure.

“We looked at every possible permutation, except FU and PU. None of them, not one, was cooler than XP. After exhausting the two-letter space, we went to three letters, considering names like GTO, FZR, and NRG. But in the end, we realized that the effort was futile. XP was simply too cool, too much the zeitgeist of 2003, to ever be out-cooled.”

“Once we realized that cool was off the table, we decided to go for a name as mamby pamby as we could—as sort of joke. So we said ‘to hell with it. Let’s name it after Windy Vista Lane’, which is in Albuquerque near Microsoft’s original office.”

“I mean, let’s face it: We could call it ‘Windows Crap’ and you idiots would buy it.”