[irishjuggler]

What's the deal with the "Windows 7" name anyway? I remember in the early '90s, Windows 3.1 was the big deal. Since then there have been more than three (supposedly) major upgrades to Windows, right? By my count, there were at least five: Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP and Vista.

Do only three of those five now count? Or is Windows 7 the operating system equivalent of Leonard Part 6?

[VeniVidiVici]

What's the deal with the "Windows 7" name anyway?

Started with Windows NT 3.1 then Windows NT 4.0, next Windows 2000 was Windows 5. I think Windows XP/2003 was Windows 5.1, Vista and Windows Server 2008 is Windows 6 and Windows 7 is, well, Windows 7.

The "16-bit" codeline was Windows 2, Windows 286/386, Windows 3/3.1/3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

What's the deal with the "Windows 7" name anyway? I remember in the early '90s, Windows 3.1 was the big deal. Since then there have been more than three (supposedly) major upgrades to Windows, right? By my count, there were at least five: Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP and Vista.

Ever since MS wrote a real 32-bit OS in Windows NT, Windows operating system version numbers have been based on Windows NT and it's descendants.

Windows NT 3.1, 3.51
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000 (NT 5.0)
Windows XP (NT 5.1)
Windows Vista (6.0)
Windows 7

[discostu]

I think 98 is considered a point release for 95 (so if 95 was 4.0 then 98 would be 4.5), 2000 was part of the NT chain so take that out. And then it actually works... well it does if you forget ME, which MS seems to have written out of history.