This has to be the idea of the century

  • VindictiveJudge
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    216 days ago

    NT was a fully seperate product from 95 and 98, using a different kernel. 95 -> 98 -> Me was the old kernel, NT -> 2000 -> XP -> Vista -> 7 -> 8 -> 10 -> 11 is the other line. Me was a play on Millenium Edition, so that line was just numbered by year. The NT series names are a bit wonky, though. The reason for skipping 9 involves legacy program support and bad coding practices from ye olde programmers. 7 was kind of an arbitrary number to begin with, though.

    • @[email protected]
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      116 days ago

      Yeah, I understand the whole different kernal thing but that’s the type of thing that the average consumer shouldn’t have to know to follow your program naming scheme.

      • clif
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        215 days ago

        I just enjoy that I can call them “xbone”

    • @TheGrandNagus
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      116 days ago

      In addition to ME and NT, they also had CE.

      CEMENT.