Comments on: New Windows – Windows 7 http://www.brajkovic.info/windows7/new-windows-windows-7/ Windows Server 2008, Server Core, Foundation Server, Virtualization, Hyper-V, Virtual PC... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:05:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: UXPassion.com http://www.brajkovic.info/windows7/new-windows-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-620 UXPassion.com Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:39:13 +0000 http://www.brajkovic.info/?p=45#comment-620 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. 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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