Re: OT: Isn't it Windows 9?

In article <k8pOk.1413$Jv2.132@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Wes Groleau <groleau+news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gregory Weston wrote:
Yes, I'm aware of that. I'm not sure what you think I said that you
tried to correct. The first version of Windows NT was numbered 3.1.
Windows 95 identified itself to software as version 4.0.

Well, taking your word for that, there was a 3.1, then a 4.0, then they
rewrote it and called it 3.1, and ...

No. They never went back in version numbers. I'm really not sure what
you're reading but it's not what I wrote. First there was Windows 1.0,
then 2.0, then 3.0 and 3.1. Then there was NT and they numbered it 3.1.
Then they updated NT and called it 3.5. Then there was Win95 and it was
4.0. Then they updated NT again and called *that* 4.0. (I'm ignoring
anything past the first dot separator in this because it's frankly not
relevant.)

I think part of what's confusing people is that until the release of
Win2K Microsoft was very careful about marketing two separate branches
of Windows to two separate subcultures. Despite being completely
different products, for some reason they unified the internal version
numbers and then, over time, merged the lines.

Which takes us back to the OP: Where did they learn to count?

It's actually all perfectly justified except for the very last one where
so far they're using 6.1 as the internal version number and imply
they'll continue to do so after release. If you follow the major version
numbers, rather than simply counting an arbitrary subset of product
names, they're currently on 6.0.

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- Harry Potter and the Odor of the Phoenix
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