Adios Vista! Windows 7 On The Horizon

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by RStar

When they jump version whole numbers (I.E.) 4.2 to 5.0 are they saying there are enough changes to warrent the new version and the 4.0 to 4.1 is simply a "fixed" version? Because it would seem to me that all versions were no more than fixes or patches with a few new features tossed in for marketing purposes (since I know nothing about the underlying code that makes it run).

Windows X = Y.Z

Z and X change when there are significant feature adds to the OS without changes to the underlying architecture. Y changes when they change the basic underpinnings of the operating system. Meanwhile, there are actually finer grain version numbers (Y.Z.xxxxx) for bug fixes.

And, like Alex, I have never had the issues with Vista that make it supposedly so awful. And I'm somewhat of a power user.