Is windows 7, windows 7 for a reason?

[FatRakoon]

So where does Windows 3.1 etc go then - and why does ME and 2000 have seperate numbers, while they were very different, they are the same generation really, with Me aimed at home, and 2000 at "professional"

I fail to recognise that list.

Windows 9x & ME are NOT at all in *** same category as the others.
Windows 3 and indeed 3.11 are so different again, in fact 3 and 3.11 are massively different to each other under the hood, but then there is alos MSEXEC ( Windows 1 & 2 ) and these, if anything should be included anywhere that Win3.x might be, but alas, it should not.

Nor should 95, 98 or ME belong to such a list, they have no place and why the first person to post such a list had included them is beyond me.

Because they never included NT3 or NT4... AFAIK there was never an NT1 or NT2 and the first proper NT was developed alongside Windows 3.1 and so I think the first version of NT is indeed 3.1 ... Its the earliest I have anyway.

So, the real list should in fact be

NT3
NT4
NT5 - 2000, XP, 2003,
NT6 - Vista,Windows 7

Although they are saying that XPis 5.1 and Win7 is 6.1

To be fair, most NON 64bit systems cannot run Vista that well anyway, AMD have had 64bit support in all their chips for ages, and so have intel since the move to C2D.

What? Plenty of 32Bit setups can run vista perfectly well. What the heck are you talking about?
Also Intel didnt make a MOVE to C2D... C2D is only one of a fairly large list of processors they are currently supporting.

 

[rypt]

They MOVED to having C2D as their "mainstream" "everyday" processor. Hence it's a MOVE. Just like now they are MOVING onto Nehalem/Core i7. Either way, it's just how I phrase the thing.

And what MAINSTREAM desktop 32bit setups are there? Core Solo/Core Duo? I would not call them "main stream", given how they were not in recent times that much cheaper than the lowish C2Ds meaning that C2D was always a better choice.

 

[NathanE]

Im sure the drivers will be vista ones.

The relationship between Vista and Windows 7's drivers will be similar to that which 2000 and XP had. I.e. the only thing preventing you from installing will be some over-zealous install/setup program.

 

[rypt]

I think the only way they can arrive at "7" is via the major NT revisions.

Win NT 3.1 => 1
Win NT 3.5/3.51 => 2
Win NT 4 => 3
Win 2k (NT 5.0) => 4
Win XP (NT 5.1) => 5
Win Vista (NT 6.0) => 6

Win 7 (NT 6.1?) => 7