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Begins talking about the fact that they are not talking....? :D
Got to start somewhere I guess... :)
Just noticed this:
http://my.break.com/Content/view.aspx?ContentID=509679
A consequence of multi-threading with out-of-order execution... :)
Windows 7? Not only can't Windows get the time right, but they cannot count either!
Windows 3.0, 3.1, etc.
Microsoft Bob
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows N.T.
Windows M.E.
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista
And that doesn't include server products, either!
:redeyes: hmmm perhaps they are thinking borg?:redeyes: :eek2: :D
Heh heh, it took me a minute to get that... Good one!
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Originally Posted by Guts3d
I am sure they are in denial about MS Bob and WinBlows ME so they didn't count those.
I am thinking that Windows 7 has something to do with the kernel level maybe. Windows 2000 and XP have the same kernel level as does 98/Me I believe.
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Originally Posted by Guts3d
Here are ones that I know of. I haven't seen them all, though.
Windows 1.0
Windows 2.0
Windows/286
Windows/386
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.1 1
Windows 95
Windows 95 B
Windows 95 C
Windows NT 3.1
Windows NT 3.5
Windows NT 3.51
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 98
Windows 98 SE
Windows CE
Windows 2000
Windows ME
Windows XP
Windows 2003
Windows 2003 R2
Windows Vista
Wikipedia lists a few more or less depending on how you count:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows
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Yeah, the nomenclature is weird. Let's see. Uhm, all current Windows versions are actually based on Windows NT, so the Windows 1.0 through 9x versions don't count as real Windows 'cause they ran on top of DOS (no matter how MS waffled on 9x, they did, so there).
Therefore, Windows 2000 was really NT 5.0. Don't believe me? The current version of Windows Defender will install and run just fine on W2K, if you edit the MSI file so that the StartConditions line doesn't look for a version greater than NT 5.0. Therefore, XP , based on logical sequence as well as evidence in at least one MS Windows Installer file, is NT 6.0.
So, that means that Vista is Windows 7 and Windows 7 is... well... Not here yet? A Vista service pack? Yet another confusing MS marketing scheme predisposed to failure and confusion? Fine. If it doesn't make sense, don't blame me. The mods edit my posts behind my back and here's a video you might like, and I wish the aliens would stop abducting me.
It is kernel version level, but 2000/XP and 9x/ME are different codestreams, and have a different kernel level.Quote:
Originally Posted by BOB IROC
To find a version level of a running Windows, run winver.
Win 9x/ME is Windows 4, following on from Windows 3.
2000/XP follow the NT codebase, and are Windows NT 5, following on from NT 4. Windows 2000 is NT 5.0, XP is NT 5.1, Server 2003 & XP64 are NT 5.2
Vista is NT 6.0
Right, but joking aside, if Win 7 is essentially a face-lifted Vista with same driver architecture , etc. as MS claims, I don't see how it rates a full version number. Shouldn't this be maybe Windows 6.5 instead? Maybe Windows 6 and a Quarter.
Bob, think I may have misunderstood your post as saying "Windows 2000 and XP have the same kernel level as 98/Me". Re-reading, I now understand your meaning as "2000/XP have the same kernel level as each other" and also "98/Me have the same kernel level as each other", which of course is quite correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Platypus
I'm inclined to agree, as Win2000 & XP didn't rate a version number advancement. Guess we'll have to wait & see what actually happens - after all, Vista got massively reworked part way through and didn't end up being what MS originally thought it was going to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by slgrieb
...after all, Vista got massively reworked part way through and didn't end up being what MS originally thought it was going to be.
Slow??? ( Sorry, couldn't resist! )
It's always seemed to me like a lot of the functionality MS originally planned for W2K finally showed up in XP. But it will interesting to see what we get with 7.
Apparently NTFS is going to be with us for a while, and I just can't get excited about multi-touch. It just isn't relevant to what I usually do with my computer, and I think that's likely to be true for most users. I can think of a whole laundry list of stuff I'd rather see, starting with a streamlined UAC. Somehow, having to deal with UAC just to open Device Manager (to pick one of my biggest pet peeves) seems ridiculous.
7 is how many years it will be before the BETA is released.
I got old this time last week......Will it really matter ?:knife:
It really wouldn't matter much if I weren't in the biz. But, eventually, I'll have to work with it and support it, and you really don't get intimate with an operating system short of running it daily. Study all you want, it isn't the same. If I'm going to be using W7, it wouldn't hurt my feelings if the experience was fairly pain free, and maybe even made my daily routine a bit easier. Hey! It might even be Faster! Easier! More Fun! But I'm willing to settle for it not being a huge pain in the butt.