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Does your brother have XP Firewall enabled ?
Kind regards,
Does your brother have XP Firewall enabled ?
Kind regards,
Forewarning, the torrent floating around on mininova is fake and has a virus..
Not to be rude, but this was a rather cynical post =/ MS stated plenty of times, and right from the get go, that windows 7 is working on the same vista kernel =/ and they explained just about everything you did.
They said Windows 7 isn't trying to have some sort of an "aspirational" name like XP(eXPerience) or Vista(beautifulness or whatever).
And is the version number thing not true? Could they have not called is 7.0 if they wanted to? Yea, of course they should have called it 6.1 because its running on the vista kernel, but that doesn't change the fact that the version number does indeed help with app compatibility.
Also, I don't see why Windows 7 is a stupid name. I think XP and Vista are more "stupid" than Windows 7.
What would you rather have them call it, Windows Epiphany? :P
As for it being called 7 or 6.1 kernel etc etc it is just a label so people know what they are dealing with when writing code or drivers etc etc. They (MS) could call it anything they wanted but for ease of knowing what your working with they called it 6.1 kernel and windows 7 well that would be easy its the seventh attempt at a kernel but that just my idea behind it all and I like to think the simplest answer tends to be the correct one.
at least I label my files with easy labels so I know what I am working with, I also label my DVD or CD so I know whats in it kinda like 6.1 and 7 labels.
Guys I read somewhere that Microsoft were thinking of calling it Vienna. Now that would have been silly :). As far as I can tell it's the 7th major OS release from Microsoft.
1 Windows (up to 3.11)
2 Windows 95/98
3 Windows ME
4 Windows 2000
5 Windows XP
6 Windows Vista
7 Windows 7
I may be wrong but this info came from Microsoft....
The Seven codename was originally Fiji. The real Fiji did not like it.... Seven sounds better