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Re: [LUG] OT: [Fwd: Tech changes 'outstrip' netbooks]

 

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:01:49AM +0000, Julian Hall wrote:
> Interesting they say that Windows 8 or 9 may run on ARM.  Is it only
> me that remembers MS saying after Windows 3.1 'we're ditching
> version numbers as customers don't understand them'?

My understanding was that a key issue was copyright. For some
reason it is (was) apparently easier to protect your product if it was
named as opposed to numbered.

Presumably this is no longer an issue or perhaps "Windows" plus a number
is sufficiently protected. 

If so then Windows 3..
Windows 4 = 95? in 1995?
Windows 5 = XP? in 2003?
Windows 6 = Vista? in 2006?
Windows 7 in 2009

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