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Old March 31st 13, 03:06 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default I'm using Windows 9
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:12:20 +1100, "
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who where wrote:
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:52:48 -0600, wrote:

The current version of Windows is "Windows 8". Well, I have Windows 9,
so I am ahead of the times. Actually, I have Windows 9.8.....
That's even better yet.

Considering Windows 95 and 98 and 98se have always been referred to as
"Windows 9".

Not quite. They are (collectively) Windows 4 and apart from that tag
were "always" referred to as Win9X. Big difference.

The latest versions were all numbers.

ALL Windows versions were numbers if you ever bothered to look under
the fancy packaging.

And then there was XP. Another name I never
understood where it came from.

Does it matter? They can stick whatever name on it they like to
distinguish it from any predecessor.

And even Windows ME, was millenium edition, for the year 2000. (That
was an overlap of the same year.... not too bright on their part
either).

ME was the dismal last Win4 version. Win2000 was the first
"mainstream" NT version. These were two separate OS streams, just as
NT 3.51/NT4 etc had existed for years alongside Win4.

As I understood it, Win2000 was supposed to be a combined version, able
to work on standalone computers (i.e. upgrade from Win98SE) *and*
networked computers (i.e. upgrade from NT versions) but, after its
release, Win2000 was found to not work well on standalones, so the
revised standalone version became WinME.

Noooo. There was no "supposed to" about it. In terms of *purpose*
Win2000 was an attempt to introduce the NT paranoid-security flavour
of O/S to the masses and wean them off the (in MS' thinking) less
secure Win4 stream. Epic fail.

WinME was an attempt to tart up Win98 to get people to move on.
Another epic fail - if you did a count of destops running 98SE vs ME
right now the ratio would embarrass Mickeysoft.

The networking aspect you mention is a complete red herring.
Networking has been quite functional through Win3 (as in 3.11/WfWg)
and all of Win4.