And not a Mac, either ;-)
(You may have seen David Pogue's classic YouTube video demonstrating how much Vista tried to steal from Mac OS X.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaIUkwPybtM )
>Only partially correct. Engineering saw it as an incremental update to Vista. Marketing wanted something that said, "It's not Vista".
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>>The 6.1 thing is only for compatibility issue. Some software only check the first digit when verifying the OS version. So if they use something like
IF VERSION() = 5 OR VERSION() = 6
>> *-- Proceed
>>ELSE
>> *-- Wrong OS
>>ENDIF
the software will still run under Windows 7. If they changed the version to 7.0, the code above would have broken.