Comments on: Microsoft Announces Windows 7

By: calgary painters

calgary painters — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:13:38 +0000

i was scratching my head about this as well. I guess the NT 4 versions are all Operating systems built on top of DOS which is why they can be considered as 4.x.

By: Vince Veneziani

Vince Veneziani — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:09:55 +0000

Nice find Jonny. I was wondering about this myself.

By: Jonny

Jonny — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:44:22 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows

I should have just wikied it first.

Looks like NT, 95, 98 and ME are all 4.x releases. 2000 and XP are all 5.x releases. Vista is 6.

Its crazy that Microsoft can call them all the same basic version but still charge a shitload for the upgrade or “new” version.

By: Jonny

Jonny — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:29:33 +0000

I think i am missing how this is the 7th release.

Windows 1 = 1
Windows 2 = 2
Windows 3 = 3
Windows NT = 4
Windows 95 = 5
Windows 98 = 6
Windows 2000 = 7
Windows ME = 8
Windows XP = 9
Windows Vista = 10
Windows 7 = 11

So their are definitely not counting some, but i’m not sure which ones.