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Originally Posted by Rene Ritchie
Used Win7 Beta, but not RC yet. It's actually Windows 6.1 (Vista was 6) so it's very similar and I don't anticipate any problems.
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No it is Windows 7.
The kernel is not the same.
1. Windows 1.0
2. Windows 2.0
3. Windows 3.0 and Windows NT which was code versioned as Windows 3.1.
4. Then came Windows 95, which was code versioned as Windows 4.0. Then, Windows 98, 98 SE and Windows Millennium each shipped as 4.0.1998, 4.10.2222, and 4.90.3000, respectively.
5. Windows 2000 code was 5.0 and then we shipped Windows XP as 5.1, even though it was a major release we didn’t’ want to change code version numbers to maximize application compatibility.
6. That brings us to Windows Vista, which is 6.0.
7. So we see Windows 7 as our next logical significant release and 7th in the family of Windows releases.
The 6.1 thing is just so they can get by DOD policy.