Saturday, September 20, 2008

Why is it called Windows 7? -

Windows 1, 2, 3, 95, 98, Millenium, XP, Vista -- Windows 7? Not 9? (Or did Windows 1 and 2 not exist? I started on 3.1).

It s actually Windows 6.1, amusingly enough. From their internal numbers, Win 95 was 4.0, Win 98 was 4.10.1998, Win 98 SE was 4.10.2222A, ME was 4.90.3000. Then Win2k was 5.0, xp was 5.1, and Vista is 6.0. quot;Windows 7quot; is currently reporting itself as 6.1... which in part is because it s intended to be very backwards-compatible with Vista. So it s like they followed their logic trail, then looped around and chopped its head off. ;)

It is the 7th major revision. The names were confusing people so they went with the KISS method this time around.

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