On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 23:23:15 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Not to mention, if you want to talk about the truly Big Boys, even Windows doesn't follow any of the proposed versioning schemes (I mean, what's up with 3.0 -> 3.1 -> 95 -> 98 -> 2000 -> XP -> 7 -> 8 -> 9... ? That doesn't even follow any logical numerical ordering!), yet you have to admit its marketing is far more successful than D can probably dream of being.
This is wrong. Microsoft follows a very strict versioning system. The list you are referring to above are the marketing *names* of the operating systems, not the versions.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/ms724832(v=vs.85).aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions
