| # | Author | Message |
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| FiveBearRugs
Thu 10/22/2009 3:32p | Hasn't there been more than 7 platforms??
Windows 3.1, 95, 97, 98, 99, 2000, Me, XP, Vista...
Or were some Windows not being counted? |
2
| alexbook
Thu 10/22/2009 3:37p | This should make it crystal clear:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...Tree.svg |
3
| alexbook
Thu 10/22/2009 3:38p | ^--Forgot the ":-P" |
4
| Shiva
Thu 10/22/2009 4:21p | ^^dang, I cant' open the file. I know there are a few more like Windows 2003 Server and I still have an old machine with Windows 2.0 on it in the 2nd garage somewhere. |
5
| Shiva
Thu 10/22/2009 4:24p | ...several versions of NT in the 3. and 4. families. |
6
| alexbook
Thu 10/22/2009 4:40p | Not to worry. It's an overly complicated graphic, showing some of the different versions and how they relate. You might try this link, which goes to much the same place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...Tree.svg
If you believe Wiki, Windows 95 was 4.0, 98 was 4.10, 2000 was 5.0, XP was 5.1, Vista was 6.0, and Windows 7 is *actually* 6.1, which would make it more of a modification of Vista than a new version:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...releases |
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| FiveBearRugs
Thu 10/22/2009 4:41p | Ah, the timeline of computers... the 1990s PCs that everyone put together... games like Doom... the small Macintoshes... the multi-colored iMacs... MS-DOS...CD-ROMs... |
8
| ShivaThDestroyer
Thu 10/22/2009 5:23p | Thanks Alex! That was sort of fun...actually brought back a few nostalgic memories. |
9
| WestWind
Thu 10/22/2009 6:16p | Is Windows 7 being marketed as the 7th version of Windows? I have not been reading anything much about it yet. Is it implied or assumed to be version 7 of Windows? Perhaps it's just another meaningless name like XP or Vista? They could have called it Windows G; Windows DL; Windows 2009; Windows Zista; or ?
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| FiveBearRugs
Thu 10/22/2009 8:18p | Maybe they got lucky this time :) |
