Comments on: Why Windows 8?

By: Eidbest

Eidbest — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:55:25 +0000

No matter what Microsoft will do, XP will remain the king of he hill for most of us.

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By: go4it7arh

go4it7arh — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:36:17 +0000

I think the reason they have it like that is because Windows XP is just windows 2000 with a theming experience, really. That's most of the difference, at least. I mean there was a lot of bugfixes too, but yeah. Same with Windows 7. It's called Windows 6.1 because it's Vista with tons of fixes, instead of entirely redesigned.

By: go4it7arh

go4it7arh — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:36:17 +0000

By: khairul1

khairul1 — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:07:19 +0000

Microsoft said that the reason they didn't jump to 7.0 is because of program compatibility issues. Some older programs will be happy to operate on a system that's got a 6 at the beginning but nothing more than that.

Apparently, Microsoft learnt that lesson from Vista.

By: khairul1

khairul1 — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:07:19 +0000

Apparently, Microsoft learnt that lesson from Vista.

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By: wier11

wier11 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:03:38 +0000

Windows 7 is 6.1 because of compatibility issues. Programs that check the win version to be 6.x will be compatible with win 7 too, because the core of it doesnt differ that much from Vista!

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:47:52 +0000

and he called him self ‘IEuser’… say no more

By: Croatia

Croatia — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:39:06 +0000

I think he meant Internet Explorer 8

By: Everton

Everton — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:44:03 +0000

are you sure you are using windows 8 and not windows 7?

By: IEuser

IEuser — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:11:51 +0000

Windows 8 really sucks. It crashes on me every single time on website like nytimes.com. And the character encoding completely not working. what the hell??

By: Everton

Everton — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:57:54 +0000

see comments – XP was 5.1

By: JMR

JMR — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:12:53 +0000

and where is windows XP on this list?

By: Everton

Everton — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:58:07 +0000

I think microsoft have cheated a bit by calling Vista 6.0 and not 5.2, as Windows 7 really deserved the jump to 6 in my view and not Vista.

Given that Vista to Windows 7 still isn’t a big jump, I think Windows 8 will warrant a new number

By: Everton

Everton — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:55:58 +0000

yes, XP was 5.1

By: bobisimo

bobisimo — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:54:10 +0000

That was the first thing I thought. XP is, arguably, Windows most successful OS. Funny to see 98SE referenced but not XP. .-= bobisimo´s last blog ..The Parade Continues =-.

By: Adam Tiley

Adam Tiley — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:53:54 +0000

Does that mean that they are planning the next OS to be big….Windows vista was a step to something big and apparently it was just a ‘beta’ of an upcoming O.S, maybe Windows 7 is the same? Maybe Microsoft are planning their Windows to eventually become insanely amazing! …Or maybe not..

By: Adam Dempsey

Adam Dempsey — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:53:08 +0000

What about XP? Wasn’t that 5.1 or something?