Wonky Windows Names

5) Crapshoot

4) LongHernia

3) Los Alamos (where bombs are made and security is dubious)

2) Windows NotAgain

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Douglas Rockney
• Windows insert_current_year_plus_one()Dennis Burdick

• LongBoot

Joe Bars
• Ho-broken

Estevan Roman
• "The Windows Reloaded"

Matthew Cain
• OpenSore

Tom Avern
• WinD'ohs GTFreddie H. Sebren
• "Nightmare By Gates"

Arnold Aravena
a• Tired Windows; Silver Goose; Long Hand; Short Windows; Easy Can't Do (ECD); New Troubles '96 (NT'96); Good Luck Network (GLN)

Steve Harvey
1. Microsoft Moose2. Bob II
3. Clear Window Pain
4. WatchLinuxBleed

5. Bill's Great Adventure
6. SCO_Unix`ed_Linux

Gaspar Botsinkay
• III Gate

Jeffrey Goble
• "Cheetah"Erik Ludloff
• WrongHorn

Wayne Rorex

• "Windows Pain" (or Pane)
This allows updates of "Double Pain"
and "Triple Pain"
and the fixes would be "Cauking"

Chris Hulaj
• "Godot"

Daniel Reiss
• ApApleXy

Dan Martin

• "Servicepack" Edition ProMike Sherck
• BillsNextBillion

Dan Martin
• Windows Security Systems Editionalso known as "Win SecSystEd"
Look for Service Pack 34.

Daniel Reiss
• Cupertino2, DeathSpiral, 64-NOT, HornBroken, LongGone, WinDoze [not original but fits]; RedYawn; YawnMount, Pay-no-Attention-to-the-Man-Behind-the-Curtain,

John Biancheri
• Final Solution

Fred Thoene
• Windows No-WorkieSteve Begay
• UNVMYOS 1.0

Jos Vandersman
• Windows XXXX

Nicholas Fanale

• Windows Quitilt

Bob Kokinda
• Secure

Richard Mlodoch
• TikritChris Falkner
• Project Blue Book

Joseph Meyers

• Windernet Explorer

Greg Tucker
• ID10T

Dominic G. Vadakkan
• Windows Unsecure

Mary Ayala
• DoorsKarla Davis
• Bug Soup

Douglas Rockney
• - OS XI
- Mishawaka
- Linux-killer
- Bob

doug ross
• LongInToothWindows XP for Workgroups
Windows ME - New Technology

Andrew Lerner

• CrashTest

Denny
• "ID-10-T ERROR"Joe M Price
• How about "SBDN" for Same Bugs, Different Name.

Leo Barrera
• Smegma
Meatcake

Brouhaha

John Grace
• SteerClear

Jose D. Hernandez
• DriveBlind, ClueLess, Sucker, BlueScreen,MadeULook, Paperwait, LongBoot, RamSuck,BootLicker, PhoneHome, Stranded, Isolator,DriveWrecker, MIM(missing information manager),NoLogic, Infectus, MyPlague, HOE(hell on earth)ReAnimator, IT Comicus, KeepMeGessing, What,Joker, JokesonU, Repeat, KickMe, TarroLargo,BeatMe, BeatU, WhoopMe, Whoopee, Shazzzam,OHS..T, Deleted, Scream, Victimizer, SchizophreniaIgotU, LostOnDrive, RoadKill, RoadBurn, Scrambled,BinarySoup, WontWork, History, VirusMag, PatchMe,CauseUPain, Anguish, Crash&Burn, LoseUrFiles,IDareU, OpenDoor, RevolvingDisk, VirusMag, OpenCode, FileShare, YourDocuments, DontStart,GuessWho, FalseStart, Fileshredder, HumorUs,Improv, WATTS(what are they thinking), Tripped,Hemp, Smoken, MissingLink, RoadKill, Governor,ItsMyDocuments, Willis

Paul Harbeson
• Win-dooze
Windows Dir-T

Win-slows
Win-Don'tLyndon Berglan
• Thermopain Windows - The GUI guaranteed to get you hot under the collar and keep the maximus discomfort in your gluteus

Doug Whitaker
• Operation BudgetBust

Darin M. Bush
• Top 11 Worst Code Names for the Next Version of the Windows 11. spyware#1
10. exhackers

9. Oyster
8. 1D10T
7. Stevie's Wonder
6. dojsux
5. Bwahahaha
4. Soylent
3. Windows 1984
2. penguinator
1. iWindows

Lora Pennington
• Windows Shuttered

Steven Barger
• XPiredSteven Barger
• Win95-Reloaded

Steven Barger
• BallmerVision

Steven Barger

• Illsbay Ewnay Orchepay

eac
• Farfignugen ???

Erik de Ruijter
• NeedsTransputer 2007Doug Whitaker
• Big-n-Tasty

Internizzle Fizzle

Gary Hoke
• LagHorn

Gary Hoke
• BetterLateThanNever

Gary Hoke
• ServicePack200XMatt Bauer
• Job Security

Craig S.

• WinHoles: Annoying Features Edition

Howard Marks
• Hoboken I resemble that remark.

jerry lein
• Windows BSD "Blue Screen of Death" Too

Kevin Jackson
• Windows.0 (as in "no point")Doug Whitaker

• WormBucket

HackMagnet

gregory mamayek
• ~ Hack

~ Phlem

~ WUSS (Windows Under Stabilized System)
~ Crash&BurnBaby (new from Ronco)

~ ShortLeg (instead of LongHorn)

David Glasser
• Windows BSD

Joe Jackson
• ShoeHorn

James T
• IPOS "I-Pod Operating system"Matt Crawford
• Long FUBAR

Long SNAFU

Kerry Crouse
• BigFoot

Kerry Crouse
• SlowHand

Kerry Crouse
• Control-Alternate-Death

Kerry Crouse
• Big-Blue-ScreamWeldon Isham
• How about: Window's 4 ID.10.TS

David G. Miller
• "Outing Flannel and Thumb" - The best way to feel secure, just ask Linus van Pelt from Peanuts.

gregory mamayek
• Can you say onomatopoeia?

~UnhUnh

~ OhOh
~ Buzz

~ Swat

~ ClickClickBoom

A few others ...

~ BeenThereDunThat
~ WassupNotMe

~ NotAgain

~ BSOD

~ BigFatMutha

~ SnakeEyes
~ CrapShoot

~ Monopoly (pun in there somewhere)

~ Microslut

~ MOS (Most Off System)

Nick Nielsen
• In keeping with the current skiing-inspired names:
Downhill
Double Mogul

Loose Powder
Detached Binding
Broken Lift

Rick Hopkin
• Spam 'O' Rama

wayne maurer
• - Broken Sash
- Windows Sloth
- Windows 2110

- Lindows
- FUBAR
- Smoking Turd
- Windows Whenever

Ron Bender
• OnTime

Richard Perske
• Moprofits, Tryagain, Screwtheusers, Pieinsky, Notfixed, Duzntwork, Jobsecurity, Helpus, SendmoneyJeff Murdoch

• Windows MMXNitro: The wrestling gamers' O/S of choice...

Jeff Murdoch
• Windows Decaf: Do I have to spell this one out?

Jeff Murdoch
• Windows Steam-edition: The ultimate in vaporware.

Jeff Murdoch
• Los Alamos: a place where bombs were made and security has been dubious.

Los Alamos
• I.e., the place where bombs are made and security is dubious.Dave Golz
• Dirty Windows

Dennis Burdick
• Cash_Cow_Second_Edition

Ralph H. Stoos Jr.
• Webian
Winux
Fenestration

LongWhore
Windows TNG
Mocha Latte
LongHussein
iRun
RustWorthy
U571
Halloween
TuxBuster

LongHernia
CP/M
OS-9 From Outer Space
MediaCounterEdition
WindowsDOJ
DeskTrap Edition
Whinedows
Slapware
Deliverance

MinimizeThis
LongBoot

Steven A. Matheson
• (VMS... WNT...) "XOU"

Blow-Your-Own-Horn
Bob-II

Windows-Please-Don't-Buy-X1-And-Wait-For-WinFS

Windows 2008

Windows 2009 beta

Windows-Bigger-And-Larger-Than-Ever
Windows Bloat Edition

I Can't Believe It's Not XP!

OverHype

OS-Xp

Linuxp
Windows "It's From Microsoft So Just Buy It And Don't Ask Questions"

Windows Hardware Upgrade Required Edition

trystan

• Challenger

Danny Miskov
• MicroLinux

Adam Beckett
• BlueScreen0