I figured that was going to start something. ☺ I also realized as I hit the
send button that I’d totally missed a few. That’s a pretty impressive table.
I wish I had the dates for 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 to add to it.
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world...
those who understand binary and those who don't.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Ken Schaefer
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 7:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] #windowsnext is the hashtag to follow
I think there’s a few OSes that are numbered (NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0 etc.). Others
had years (95, 98, 2000 etc.)
Windows 95 is not an environment that runs on top of DOS. DOS is used to
bootstrap the system, however once the Win95 loader takes over, DOS is
relegated to a “VM” effectively, to run 16bit DOS apps. Win95 implements its
own 32bit kernel, virtual memory manager, driver framework etc:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95 (or there’s great coverage in the
earlier editions of Windows Internals)
NT Family
Consumer Family
Apr 1992
Windows 3.1
Oct 1992
WfW 3.1
July 1993
Windows NT 3.1
Sep 1994
Windows NT 3.5
May 1995
Windows NT 3.51
Aug 1995
Windows 95
July 1996
Windows NT 4.0
Aug 1998
Windows 98
Feb 2000
Windows 2000
Sep 2000
Windows ME
Oct 2001
Windows XP (5.1)
Nov 2006
Windows Vista (6)
Oct 2009
Windows 7 (6.1)
Oct 2012
Windows 8 (6.2)
Oct 2013
Windows 8.1 (6.3)
Cheers
Ken
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus
Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2014 11:00 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] #windowsnext is the hashtag to follow
Windows 8.x was an anomaly. Well, OK, maybe a temporary return to anomalous
behavior? Looking at what we’ve had there hasn’t been a numbered version
except 7 and 8, at least that were actually true operating systems.
Windows 1.0 (not really an OS, just an application specific environment running
on DOS)
Windows 2.0 (not really an OS, just an environment running on DOS)
Windows 3.x (not really an OS, just an environment running on DOS)
Windows 95 (not really an OS, just an environment running on DOS)
Windows NT 3.5
Windows NT 4.0
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows 7
Windows 8.x
And if you look at the version numbers from within the OS, XP was really 5,
while 7, 8, 8.1, all report as version 6.x
Has anyone loaded the preview yet? How does it report? I’m guessing it
doesn’t report as 9, more likely 6.4.x. I’ve downloaded it but haven’t time to
load it yet.
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world...
those who understand binary and those who don't.
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hank Arnold
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 4:29 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] #windowsnext is the hashtag to follow
Seriously, I suspect it was decided to make a virtual break from W8. W10 is not
just a follow-on for W8.
Regards,
Hank Arnold
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Consumer Security
“There are 10 kinds of people in the world...
Those who understand binary and those who don't.”
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From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 1:15 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] #windowsnext is the hashtag to follow
As Scott Hanselman tweeted….
It had to be Windows 10… because 7 8 9
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Link
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 1:08 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] #windowsnext is the hashtag to follow
Well, at least they didn't go with #wtf.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Rod Trent
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Actually, it’s been shortened. Now: #wth
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:55 PM
Subject: [NTSysADM] #windowsnext is the hashtag to follow
