Is it windows 7 or Windows 6

by Rootadmin on Jun.08, 2009, under Microsoft, Windows

Im currently playing with windows 7 on my laptop (and quite impressed too) but after providing a print screen of a ping of myNetwork scan results for Nokia E71 post , I noticed in the command line utility it said it was “Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7100]”

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Microsoft Windows 7 or Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7100

ok so wich is it – is it Windows 7 or Windows 6? Microsoft please make up your mind.

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6 Comments for this entry

YaManicKill
June 9th, 2009 on 10:25 pm
Its technically Windows 20 but no, they have been numbering windows versions since the beginning like that. The wikipedia page gives a list of all of them.

http://tinyurl.com/m4n2on

So yeah, No idea why it is called windows 7. It should be windows 6 or windows 20.

It is the 7th version since Windows 98…not that that actually means anything though…
YaManicKill
June 9th, 2009 on 10:26 pm
Btw, nice new layout
Rootadmin
June 10th, 2009 on 7:19 am
I dont know that i agree with version 20 becuase they are not all “full new versions” the core is the same.

windows 1
windows 2
windows 3
windows nt
windows 95
windows 98
windows 2000
windows me
windows xp
windows vista

im not inclding home server as its based on server 2003, 64bit editions as they use the same kernal and is pretty much the same os. and im not including NT versions as its still NT, and im not including server editions in general because windows 7 is a clients os and cant be comapred against an server os.

either way its still not 7 even if you argue 98 and me are just 95 with extra features like USB that came in 98 SE
YaManicKill
June 10th, 2009 on 12:35 pm
I didn’t count 64-bit versions or Server versions. I’m not sure whether you can say you won’t count NT versions, because 95, 98 and 2000 were all just versions of NT, so either you count all or count none. In that case it would be 1, 2, 3, NT, ME, XP, Vista. Which would still mean that it should be Windows 8.

So, tbh, we can’t find any decent way of saying that it shjould be Windows 7.
Rootadmin
June 11th, 2009 on 1:05 pm
Sorry but NT and 2000 are not the same as 95 and 98 they totally rewrote the kernal for NT and 2000 is loosly based on NT. Thats why NT & 2000 were so stable! 95 and 98 were dos based.
YaManicKill
June 12th, 2009 on 8:07 pm
You forget you are talking about a proprietary operating system which you cannot find the code for that is written by a bunch of people that have constantly lied to us. I don’t know how you can say they rewrote it, when noone knows.

But anyways, thats not the point.

The point is that it shouldn’t be Windows 7