This is just for fun.
With Windows 7 being released, and then Windows 8, I've been wondering for a good couple of years or so, and even more so recently, which ones are exactly Windows 4, Windows 5 and Windows 6?
Is Vista like an early release of 7?
Is XP 6?
NT and 2000 4? (- considering that first NT was released in 1993)
And 9x/Me Windows 5?
(Or maybe Windows 95/98/Millennium can be considered flavours of Windows 4, and NT/2000 5? Arguably 2000 was better than 98 and clearly better than Me.)
What would be a good classification of the Windows OSs based on clear versions, like this, 1-8?
(And yes, I know Windows 8 is NT 6.something. I'm only looking for a clearer classification than what the underlying architecture offers, which is a complex classification system, not too clear.)
What do people have to say?
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Here you go.
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From your link...
NT 4 was far from niche, unless you're talking the consumer market. NT4 was where MS started to really eat into Novell's marketshare and once they figured out which parts of NDS they wanted to steal and rebrand under AD they released NT 4 (Win2K) and really put Novell behind them in the infrastructure and file server departments. -
And then you have Windows' own internal numbering scheme:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724832%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
My guess at Microsoft's reasoning behind the version numbers:
Windows 3.x = 3
95,98,ME = 4 (all DOS based)
XP = 5 (unification of NT and consumer DOS based)
Vista = 6
Windows 7 = 7
Windows 8 = 8Last edited by jagabo; 7th Jan 2014 at 10:51.
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