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Re:Windows 8 Welcome Screen And Windows Explorer Screenshots... by code_duck on Sunday April 03, 2011 @06:51AM (#2402379)
That's what they've done with NT for the past 4 releases, yes. 2000 was the first NT5, XP was the second. Vista was the first NT 6, Windows '7' was the second. The actual version numbers of Windows, unlike the marketing names, reflect this release style.
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Re:Windows 8 Welcome Screen And Windows Explorer Screenshots... by judofyr on Sunday April 03, 2011 @07:02AM (#2402403)
Actually, the reason WinXP is 5.1 (instead of 6) and Win7 is 6.1 (instead of 7) is for "maximizing application compatibility":

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/archive/b/windowsvista/ar...

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Re:Windows 8 Welcome Screen And Windows Explorer Screenshots... by Joeri on Sunday April 03, 2011 @08:05AM (#2402505)
Ah, but they care about maximizing application compatibility more for some versions than others. Will microsoft care as much about app compatibility for windows 8 as they did for windows 7?
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Re:Windows 8 Welcome Screen And Windows Explorer Screenshots... by code_duck on Monday April 04, 2011 @03:42PM (#2408179)
They sure don't care about IE 9 being compatible with XP. Breaking third party software and hardware is more of a pain, though, as Vista proved. That was most of the problems they had with Vista, but I guess they are over that hump at this point.
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Re:Windows 8 Welcome Screen And Windows Explorer Screenshots... by contextfree on Sunday April 03, 2011 @04:05PM (#2403694)
Windows 8 is 6.2. But I doubt it has any relation to the content.
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Re:Windows 8 Welcome Screen And Windows Explorer Screenshots... by code_duck on Monday April 04, 2011 @03:41PM (#2408172)
Why would it not?
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