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Actually Windows NT started as version 3.1 and it even had OS/2 error messages. Windows 3.51 SP5 was the one that people had confidence in. Windows NT 4.0 looked exactly like Windows 95 which was based on DOS as was 98 & ME. Win2k came out with Active directory instead of the domain system and with AD and XP, you had pretty good control. XP put a prettier face on Windows 2000 Pro and gave us x64 support.

When was the time you saw a running netware box and they owned the server market NDS worked well if you knew it and kept it patched but their TCP/IP stack was pretty worthless if I remember right in that it couldn’t handle NDS so you still needed IPX in the beginning.

I loved Netware but I saw where it was going.

I’ve probably got a couple 250 user Netware 3.x and 4.x server.exes and license disks somewhere that I got free at a conference.

I like Windows 7.0 64bit. I have no idea how ver8 is but it doesn’t sound worth going to and I’m going to have to reach across my keyboard to run a touchscreen, seriously? Please tell it still me it still supports a mouse.

Yes you are right about the versions. I really just went off the top of my head. NT Has had many sub-versions we used depending on the edition we were using (Server, Pro, 32, 64, etc). The point I was trying to make was that the current windows is a variant of NT and not really related at all to the earlier versions of “Windows” other than name.

The funny thing is I went to the command line and did a VER on Windows 7 and realized it is major version 6.1.7xxxx. So I am off as well. Either it is a major dot upgrade to XP, or XP was a major dot upgrade to Win2K. Seems I lost track along the way was well.