[LINK] Windows 7 Beta available

[Brenda Aynsley]

Powell, Glenn wrote:
> Broken.....
>  
> 1. Windows 3.1
> 2. Windows 95
> 3. Windows 98
> 4. Windows ME
> 5. Windows 2000
> 6. Windows XP
> 7. Windows Vista
> 8. Windows 7
>  
> Actually the further you look at it the furthers its broken (ie Windows 286, Windows 386, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.11). And for those with more grey hair than me will probably know older versions again......


I was actually being facetious Glenn, however there are explanations and 
I guess it starts with windows 3.5/51 as being the start of the current 
approach to versioning, where NT 4 /windows 2000 were version 4 and XP 
version 5, Vista version 6 therefore the 'NBT' is obviously windows 7 
which by the time it reaches a desktop near you will be given a fancy 
name hmm perhaps windows ultimate? ;) ;)

as to what happened before win nt 3/3.5/3.51 who knows but the 
versioning was always based on the core code and not the desktop ie not 
win95, win98, winme, etc.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows for an 
account of the matter.

cheers
brenda
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