Windows 7 reports its version as:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
And by my reckoning it was preceded by:
- Windows 1.0
- Windows 2.0
- Windows 3.0 & 3.1
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Windows Millenium (the Windows that never was)
- Windows NT 1
- Windows NT 2
- Windows NT 3
- Windows NT 4
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista (how appropriate)
- Windows 7
Assuming I haven't missed any, that makes Windows 7 the 14th major version of Windows. Even if you omit NT 1 - 4, it's still the 10th major consumer version.
Does anyone know why it was branded "7"?