AFAIK, Windows was discontinued after Vista. Windows 7 is actually the 7^th iteration of the Microsoft version of OS/2, which was rebranded as Windows NT with the release of the third version, and as Windows sine NT with the seventh version. Windows 9 had to be skipped because a sloppy version check for Windows 95/98 would have failed.
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tfm@europe.pub 1 month agoWindows 1, 2, 3, 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7???, 8, 8.1, 10???, 11, 11 21H2, 11 22H2, …
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 1 month ago
flubba86@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Kind of right. Windows ME was the final version of windows (you probably forgot about that one).
After that, XP, vista, windows 7, were all based on NT.
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 1 month ago
Ah, I got that wrong. Yes, Windows XP was the rebranded Windows NT 5. Thank you for the correction.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 1 month ago
I have not forgotten Windows ME. It still haunts me in my dreams. Active Desktop crashing all the time was iconic af
flubba86@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ah yes, who’s stood up in a meeting at Microsoft and said “What if the desktop background was a webpage! And what if the web engine behind it was just internet explorer 6 but worse.”
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
2000, XP, and Vista are NT too.
varjen@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You forgot Windows 3.1. That one was a pretty significant update
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 month ago
When windows 9 comes out it will all work again.
Nikelui@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bold of you to think the next one will not be called Windows365
Manalith@midwest.social 1 month ago
That already exists as their cloud virtual desktop service.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
that’s a strange name for an operating system i’d’ve called it Chazzwozzers
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
hey andy!
Zink@programming.dev 1 month ago
I thought they were supposed to do the whole “last version of Windows that will be updated forever” with Windows 10, and of course abandoned that some time ago.
My gut feeling is that their product management marketing folks came to the conclusion that Windows as a subscription was not going to work for the consumer market where the OS is something that’s just part of the device you buy. And in discussions with system OEMs they made the decision that consumers like it when the version number goes up, so increasing that windows number every several years will move systems.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Windows 11 displays as Windows 10 in a large number of places internally. It’s just a later revision than any of the “actually” Windows 10 ones.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Bold of you to think I have any expectations of Microsoft to not suck. I will wait until 9 comes out before I put another windows OS on my machines. Since why after all this, would anyone trust a software company to do anything well that can not count to 10?