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Olaf's Thoughts About Development » Microsoft announces an enhanced Windows 3.11 version

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RIF
8 months ago

LOL!

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Miel
8 months ago

The Windows API function GetVersionEx gives 6 as the major version number for Vista. So number 7 would be the sensible choice for the next version number. You're right though that "Windows 7" seems to be a rather peculiar choice as the official name for the new release.

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Kryvich
8 months ago

Perhaps the marketing guys at Microsoft lack imagination, and they just cannot find a brighter word than Vista?

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Xepol
8 months ago

Please, don't start them up again. Plenty of people insisted that MS was going to release a new OS every year after Win95 came out... You'll just get them started up all over again.

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