The other night, while chatting with Aadil and Muzaffar, we started discussing about Windows Operating System. You can be sure there was absolutely no praise for the OS but the criticism was very strong.

We talked about the variety of Windows dished out and our horrid experience with them. We’ve had so many dead fishes thrown at us by MS and each one of them stinks more than the other. We’ve had Windows 3.1, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Millenium etc etc and the latest one Vista.

Soon Vista will go down the drain coz Windows 7 will be replacing it.

Hold on a sec… XP, Vista and now 7. Whats with the MS guys? What naming convention are they following?

I found the answer to the above questions in one of the blogs written by a member of the Windows Vista Team. I found the blog hilarious, look at the following quote from the blog.

So we decided to ship the Windows 7 code as Windows 6.1 – which is what you will see in the actual version of the product in cmd.exe or computer properties

Why not name the damn thing Windows 7 everywhere. Why these two numbering schemes. Ah!! To hell with it.

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