What a lucky man, he was.
What a lucky man, he was.
In today's episode, Roland teaches us how to count to 2000.
In today's episode, Roland teaches us how to count to 2000.
sh..... 01 sh.......... 01a.
sh..... 01 sh.......... 01a.
It's more convoluted than the way Microsoft counts to 10...
1, 2, 3, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, Millenium Edition, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.
It's more convoluted than the way Microsoft counts to 10...
1, 2, 3, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, Millenium Edition, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.
You missed windows 2000. It's different from windows me.
You missed windows 2000. It's different from windows me.
Windows 2000 belongs in the Windows NT family not the consumer/home family of Windows products. Technically, Windows XP and up also fit there, but these versions had both consumer/home and professional/business SKUs. Here is the WinNT family versioning:
- Windows NT 3.1 (1993)
- Windows NT 3.5 (1994)
- Windows NT 3.51 (1995)
- Windows NT 4.0 (1996)
- Windows NT 5.0 (Windows 2000) (1997-1999)
- Windows NT 5.1 (Windows XP) (2001)
- Windows NT 5.2 (Windows Server 2003, Windows XP x64) (2003)
- Windows NT 6.0 (Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008) (2006)
- Windows NT 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2) (2009)
- Windows NT 6.2 (Windows 8, Windows Server 2012) (2012)
- Windows NT 6.3 (Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2) (2013)
- Windows NT 10.0 (Windows 10, Windows Server 2016) (2015)
They WinNT started at version 3.1 because regular Windows was at 3.1 at the time of it's release. They also jumped from Word 2.0 to Word 6.0 because Word Perfect released WP6 at the time Microsoft was dropping the next version of Word which would have been 3.0 and they didn't want consumers to think release version 3 was less than WP's version 6. Microsoft was always playing games like this back in the day.
Windows 2000 belongs in the Windows NT family not the consumer/home family of Windows products. Technically, Windows XP and up also fit there, but these versions had both consumer/home and professional/business SKUs. Here is the WinNT family versioning:
- Windows NT 3.1 (1993)
- Windows NT 3.5 (1994)
- Windows NT 3.51 (1995)
- Windows NT 4.0 (1996)
- Windows NT 5.0 (Windows 2000) (1997-1999)
- Windows NT 5.1 (Windows XP) (2001)
- Windows NT 5.2 (Windows Server 2003, Windows XP x64) (2003)
- Windows NT 6.0 (Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008) (2006)
- Windows NT 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2) (2009)
- Windows NT 6.2 (Windows 8, Windows Server 2012) (2012)
- Windows NT 6.3 (Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2) (2013)
- Windows NT 10.0 (Windows 10, Windows Server 2016) (2015)
They WinNT started at version 3.1 because regular Windows was at 3.1 at the time of it's release. They also jumped from Word 2.0 to Word 6.0 because Word Perfect released WP6 at the time Microsoft was dropping the next version of Word which would have been 3.0 and they didn't want consumers to think release version 3 was less than WP's version 6. Microsoft was always playing games like this back in the day.
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