Thread: Microsoft calling its latest version Windows 7

Why is Microsoft calling its latest version Windows 7? There have been 7 versions already in market? Windows 3, 95, 98, 2000, Millennium, XP, Vista.

In the window there are two family, the "9x" ancestors (now dead) and the NT base family.

The "9x" series actually coming with Windows 1.0 in the middle of '80s, progressing though 2.x, 3.x, Windows 95, 98, and finally Windows Millennium. The previous versions in fact ran "on top" of DOS while from Windows 95 on were more complete graphical OS.

The NT kernel based series of Windows began as Microsoft's work on IBMs OS/2. Microsoft's first release was Windows NT 3.1, intended more as a server operating system. NT based systems progressed as 3.x, 4.x, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and now Windows 7.

Possibly Microsoft named it Windows 7 because they wanted some luck since Vista was such a stinker. Either that or perhaps Windows 6 would sound too much like Windows sex.

There was a canceled version of Windows code named Longhorn intended to replace Windows XP. Counting Longhorn that makes seven NT based versions of Windows.