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Isn't that... Umm good ? Windows completely rehauls everything in every major releases and makes it difficult to navigate through.

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But at least we all know 3 came before 7, 11 followed 10 etc. Vista was 8. Dunno what happened to 9 but I'll never remember the order of 'name'. Same with android....kit kat was version what now?

Vista came before 7, so I guess it was 6? Then there was XP before that, which I suppose was 5?

Windows 2000 was NT 5.0, XP (32-bit) was NT 5.1, Windows 2003 NT 5.2.

Vista was the first of the NT 6 series. However Windows 7, 8/8.1 and the related server versions were also NT 6.x

Android is just alphabet order until they drop banned entirely for numbers, so at least you know which versions are newer.

Android has always gone in alphabetical order, so you can work it out in a few seconds.

Strangely I think it was easier to keep track of the order of OS X codenames when they were all big cats. It was more memorable.

Apple naming is too Californian centric.

If you don't know what happened to 9, I'm kind of delighted to inform you that the version number was skipped because of all the legacy applications out there that matched against a string value of "Windows 9?" to determine if the OS was Windows 95 or Windows 98, instead of checking the actual version number that gets returned when you type ver in the command line.

no so it was Vista, 7, then 8 - which would make Vista 6

Hyperbole much?

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