Linked by Adam S on Wed 15th Oct 2008 12:02 UTC
It was announced yesterday that the Microsoft OS code-named Windows 7 will be shipping as "Windows 7," exciting and surprising many. There was much question, even in our own piece, as to how Microsoft arrived at 7 for an OS likely destined to be version 6.1. Microsoft answered our question in a post called "Why 7?" on the Windows Vista Blog.
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RE[2]: Comment by prymitive
by prymitive on Thu 16th Oct 2008 18:19
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by Nelson on Thu 16th Oct 2008 19:17
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No. There are a surprising number of legacy applications that do hard checks for Operating System versions.