Comments on: Windows 7 Kernel version remains unchanged – still 7.0

By: Windows.Next after Windows 7 « Microsoft Lessons from the Web

Windows.Next after Windows 7 « Microsoft Lessons from the Web — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:37:20 +0000

[...] Windows 7 Kernel version remains unchanged – still 7.0 A lot of confusion was generated today as several news sites reported about a spotting… [...]

By: Windows 7 Kernel Feature Improves Security - Safe Unlinking | Window7s.com

Windows 7 Kernel Feature Improves Security - Safe Unlinking | Window7s.com — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:00:26 +0000

[...] Windows 7 Kernel version remains unchanged – still 7.0 A lot of confusion was generated today as several news sites reported about a spotting… [...]

By: Windows 7 release name - Page 2

Windows 7 release name - Page 2 — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:16:19 +0000

[...] We named it Windows 7 from the beginning, it wasn’t even marketing that originally chose that brand, it was our internal “code name.” The builds were versioned at 7.0. It broke compatibility for too many apps/drivers, so we changed the versioning APIs to report 6.1 to reflect the level of compatibility that should be expected by pre-existing software. I thought we’d been over this. Windows 7 is Windows 7.0. There are far more important things than driver architecture that change (and hell, there are driver architecture changes in Win7). So no, there is no “Windows 6.1 kernel” and never was. There’s just the Windows 7 kernel. Windows 7 Kernel version remains unchanged – still 7.0 | Windows 7 Center [...]

By: Jurgen

Jurgen — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:42:58 +0000

Thanks for this post

By: John

John — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:13:28 +0000

If you read Paul Thurrott’s Road to Gold on Vista, you’ll see that they actually thought about calling VISTA Windows 7!