Oct
15
2008
Microsoft announces an enhanced Windows 3.11 version
Posted by Olaf Monien in Delphi, Development, Miscellaneous, tags: .net, CodeGear, Delphi, Microsoft, Mike Nash, Vista, Windows 7According to Mike Nash, Microsoft’s Windows Product Manager, there will be a release called “Windows 7” anytime soon (or less sooner).
So I guess that’s somehow a service release for Windows 3.11, as Windows 3.11 was followed by Windows 95 (RIP) a couple of years ago.
If I’m wrong though and Windows 7 is supposed to be the successor of Windows Vista, then I wonder what the product management and marketing department of MS is smoking these days, with Windows 2003, 2008 on the market already …
Anyway, good that CodeGear was wise enough to not remove the Win 3.1 components. They are still there, even in Delphi 2009 
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LOL!
The Windows API function GetVersionEx gives 6 as the major version number for Vista. So number 7 would be the sensible choice for the next version number. You're right though that “Windows 7″ seems to be a rather peculiar choice as the official name for the new release.
Perhaps the marketing guys at Microsoft lack imagination, and they just cannot find a brighter word than Vista?
Please, don't start them up again. Plenty of people insisted that MS was going to release a new OS every year after Win95 came out… You'll just get them started up all over again.
I think the Windows 7 name is a secret Nintendo takeover plot …
Windows Vii
Now, *thats* an interesting theory