Reply to post: Re: The old ones are the good ones!

Twenty years since Windows 95, and we still love our Start buttons

David Austin

Re: The old ones are the good ones!

For a less Official and Jokey answer, Look to the build numbers:

Windows Vista: 6000

Windows 7: 7601

Windows 8.0: 9200

Windows 8.1: 9600

Windows 10: 10240

The real question is where did Windows 8 go, which is interesting on both a technical and philosophical level.

Supposedly the real reason there was no Windows 9 was for compatibility: lots of older/badly designed programs would assume Windows 9 = Windows 9x, and set themselves up for DOS instead of NT Windows - head that a lot, but don't know how true it is.

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