How To Count To 11 By Bill Gates (Picture)

[TPFanatic]

[lewellyn]

That's wonderful, and also interesting: if you use actual product lines instead of the order listed, Windows 11 is the 11th release. I had never realized that before.

In order, with "big business" versions in parens when they diverge from the non-"consumer" (NT 3.1 was intended to be more of a Fortune 100 offering than a SOHO offering, I think we will all agree, at least!) releases:

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3 (or NT 3.1)
4. 95 (or NT 3.5)
5. 98 (or NT 4)
6. Me (or 2000)
7. XP
8. 7
9. 8
10. 10
11. 11

[RealBlackStuff]

Nope, 11 in that list is entry #13 and today being a Friday adds to the misery that W11 already is.
We all know that Friday the 13th means bad luck.

[dr_st]

Wow, the non funny Microsoft jokes made around selectively picking Windows releases just... keep on coming.

[TPFanatic]

indeed, i see now the author left out Vista on its face. this can be explained away, however, by everything from Vista onward actually also being Vista.

[dr_st]

Yes! Let me try.

DOS
Windows 3 A GUI on top of DOS
Windows 3.1 A GUI on top of DOS with networking
Windows 3.11 A GUI on top of DOS with extra apps
Windows 95 An auto-loading GUI on top of DOS with long filename support
Windows 95 OSR2 An auto-loading GUI on top of DOS with FAT32
Windows 98 An auto-loading GUI on top of DOS with some fancy clouds
Windows 98 SE An auto-loading GUI on top of DOS with Internet sharing capabilities
Windows Me An auto-loading GUI on top of DOS which disables DOS unless patched
Windows NT 3.51 Some obscure business OS
Windows NT 4 Some slightly less obscure business OS
Windows 2000 Windows NT that can actually run mainstream applications
Windows XP Windows NT that can actually run mainstream applications and has decent plug-n-play support
Windows Vista Oh God, why did you have to break everything?! Hey, the desktop actually looks nice.
Windows 7 Vista but by now everyone adjusted to everything that was broken
Windows 8 Vista but now that everyone is adjusted to broken stuff, let's break some more
Windows 8.1 OK, you can have your start button back
Windows 10 Vista but flat
Windows 11 Vista but slightly less flat

[unix_joe]

I don't know why they don't just go to a YY-MM or YYYY-MM versioning scheme.

This is probably the only good thing that came of Ubuntu. If someone says I'm running Debian 12.7, I have no idea when that came out, and I'm a "stable" user. Sometime within the past six months I would assume. I only know that I'm on 12.9 because I just ran fastfetch. But if someone says they are running Ubuntu 12.04, dear sweet lord upgrade that thing, it's over a decade old, because I know that it came out in the fourth month of 2012.

Big releases of operating systems are a thing of the past. It's all marketing, and nobody is getting excited over major operating system upgrades (I remember the hype over Windows 95, and how some people were so caught up in the frenzy about it that they bought the box set without knowing what it was or even realizing that they needed a computer to run it on). Just give the version number to those of us who need it, for sysadmins, scripting and patchlevels or whatever.

[TPFanatic]

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