2009/3/21 Paul Sutton <zl...@zleap.net>: > On the other hand, I have been trying to work out how the latest > version of windows came to be called windows 7 > > windows 3.1 - 3 > windows 95 - 4 > windows 98 - 5 > windows ME - 6 > Windows XP - 7 > Windows Vista - 8 > Windows 7 - 9 ? > > if you take the above list, which is i think all the versions aimed at > home users, windows 7 should really be windows 9, if you take each of > the above to be major releases. > > so Windows 98SE is not listed, but would still be version 5, > > Any ideas.
Well, you missed out quite a lot... Bear in mind the products have always had internal version numbers which you can find out by typing VER at the command line. Windows started out as a DOS-based OS. That went: 1.0 2.0 3.0 3.1 3.11 4.0 (Windows 95) 4.1 (Windows 98) 4.2 (98SE) 4.3 (WinME) Then came the NT line, which starts out overlapping Windows 3.1: NT 3.1 NT 3.5 NT 3.51 NT 4.0 (the Explorer from Windows 95 is grafted on - that's the last exchange between them, really) NT 5.0 (Windows 2000) NT 5.1 (Windows XP) NT 5.2 (Server 2003) NT 6.0 (Vista) NT 6.1 (Windows 7) "Windows 7" is misnamed - it's the Vista kernel, they're just marketing away the bad memories of Vista. The "7" is just spin! If you count from DOS-based Windows, it's about version 10. If you count from the first release of NT, which was v1.0 but was called 3.1 for marketing and legal reasons, it's version 4.1. What it ain't is version 7 of anything! I wrote about the subject here: http://www.h-online.com/features/Windows-7-or-is-it--/111724 -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
