Question by Rationalist Dee: Where does the name “Windows 7″ come from?
Here’s how I see the history of Windows:
Windows 3.1 (Windows 3)
Windows 95 (Windows 4)
Windows 98 (Windows 5)
Windows ME (Windows 6)
Windows XP (Windows 7)
Windows Vista (Windows 8)
Windows 7 (Windows 9)
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Jason B: How is it obvious, when I count Windows 7 as the ninth system?
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Carlos: Please give me a history of Windows releases where Windows 7 is the seventh system released.
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Best answer:
Answer by Jason B
Cause Windows 7 is the 7th operating system they have released. Pretty obvious.
Your rationale makes no sense. You have 7 names right there. 7! Just cause you can’t count doesn’t make 9. You forgot 1 and 2 come before 3.
You are over thinking this too much. Microsoft has even stated why they call it Windows 7. Because it is the 7th OS they have made. Windows 3.1 would be Windows 1, not Windows 3.
1. Windows 3.1 (Windows 3)
2. Windows 95 (Windows 4)
3. Windows 98 (Windows 5)
4. Windows ME (Windows 6)
5. Windows XP (Windows 7)
6. Windows Vista (Windows 8)
7(SEE! 7!). Windows 7 (Windows 9)
Thanks to the other answerers for clearing it up history wise.
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It’s their 7th Operating System being released. Well you stated it yourself: Windows 3.1 (Windows 3)
Windows 95 (Windows 4)
Windows 98 (Windows 5)
Windows ME (Windows 6)
Windows XP (Windows 7)
Windows Vista (Windows 8)
Windows 7 (Windows 9) have been their major releases. Except with the parenthesis is wrong. As others stated OS’s before 3.1 do not because mostly because they were not popular. It was the 3.0 series that began making Microsoft popular.
7th major operating system relase for home markets.
I would like to note, the windows 1.0 to 3.0 were not actually OS, they were a graphical interface program for the MS-DOS operating system. This fact is not that well know.
Windows 3.1 is counted as 1
dos and windows 1.0 are not counted
It’s the seventh iteration of the Windows OS series, and it’s not based on the version number.
it’s based on the kernel version number (the core code behind how windows works) several versions of windows often use the same kernel.
1. Windows 1
2. Windows 2
3. Windows 3, 3.1
4. Windows 95, 98, 98SE and ME
In parallel, Windows NT 4.0 was released and Microsoft started trying to combine the kernel code to unify the split in windows platforms leading to
5. Windows 2000 (and Windows XP which is technically 5.1)
6. Windows Vista
7. Windows 7