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

 

Henry Bremridge wrote:
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
Interesting.  I would make it:

Windows 4 = 95
Windows 5 = ME
Windows 6 = 2000

WTH happens then? Your numbers may be more accurate if MS decide they want to draw a veil over the disaster of ME. Why they choose to ignore 2K is another matter.

Julian

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