aesthetic vs practical (Score 1)

I must say I like the wine (and many others) way of versioning: (yy)yymmdd. Its most practical in a development situation, where lots of changes happen quickly, or daily builds are made; Not as nice for marketing I spose.

And Microsoft may be moving away from numbering to codenames too. I believe the next version of consumer windows is called "Millenium" (isn't everything these days)

Lach