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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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