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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 7

According 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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Lars Fosdal

I think the Windows 7 name is a secret Nintendo takeover plot ...

Windows Vii

:D

Olaf Monien

Now, *thats* an interesting theory :-)

Xepol

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.

Kryvich

Perhaps the marketing guys at Microsoft lack imagination, and they just cannot find a brighter word than Vista?

Miel

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.