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    New Windows – Windows 7


     

    Windows 7

    Mike Nash, corporate vice-president in Microsoft, annouched that new version of Windows will have the name: Windows 7.

    The decision to use the name Windows 7 is about simplicity. Over the years, we have taken

    different approaches to naming Windows.  We’ve used version numbers like Windows 3.11, or dates like Windows 98, or “aspirational” monikers like Windows XP or Windows Vista.  And since we do not ship new versions of Windows every year, using a date did not make sense.  Likewise, coming up with an all-new “aspirational” name does not do justice to what we are trying to achieve, which is to stay firmly rooted in our aspirations for Windows Vista, while evolving and refining the substantial investments in platform technology in Windows Vista into the next

    generation of Windows.

    Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore “Windows 7″ just makes sense.

    Visitors of the Professional Developer Conference will receive pre-beta version of this new operating system, and Microsoft will start shipping Windows 7 at the end of 2009, or at the beginning of 2010.

    I’m just wondering, why number 7?! I can remember more than 6 Windows operating systems :-) .

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    By Ilija Brajkovic | October 14, 2008
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      There is a logic in that decision (thats what M. Nash is telling us): The very first release of Windows was Windows 1.0, the second was Windows 2.0, the third Windows 3.0.

      Here’s where things get a little more complicated. Following Windows 3.0 was Windows NT, which was code-versioned as Windows 3.1. Then came Windows 95, which was code-versioned as Windows 4.0. Then, Windows 98, 98 SE and Windows Millennium each shipped as 4.0.1998, 4.10.2222, and 4.90.3000, respectively. So we’re counting all 9x versions as being 4.0.

      Windows 2000 code was 5.0, and then we shipped Windows XP as 5.1. Even though it was a major release, we didn’t want to change code version numbers to maximize application compatibility. That brings us to Windows Vista, which is 6.0. So we see Windows 7 as our next logical significant release and seventh in the family of Windows releases.

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