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Why does Windows 7 have a seven in its name?
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Mar 15, 20264714 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Windows 7 reports its version as: And by my reckoning it was preceded by: Windows 1.0 Windows 2.0 Windows 3.0 & 3.1 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows Millenium (the Windows that never was) Windows NT 1 Windows NT 2 Windows NT 3 Windows NT 4 Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista (how appropriate) Window…
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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Windows 7 is named thusly, because Vista was version 6.0. Windows 7 is versioned 6.1 to maintain support for applications that use the major version number for testing their compatibility level. Read more from the Windows blog and here (which Nick l…
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