Talk:List of Microsoft Windows versions

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Contents 1 Box Art? 2 List Updated 3 Current and past? 4 Windows NT Errors 5 Error 6 Cleaned Up 7 List should be updated

[edit] Box Art?

Does anyone think that box art should be included with all released versions of Windows, if that edition has its own box art? 67.181.82.100 23:48, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

yes, i agree!--Umpajug 3rd December

No, I disagree. If we had all of the box art, then it would clog up the page. And there are a lot of boxes... Aero Flame 18:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List Updated

I have updated this list. I have moved almost all of the XP versions to "old versions", and added all the Vista ones. I have also added two pictures of the boxes of Vista. Aero Flame 18:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I have added the box shots of: Windows 1.0 and Windows 98 SE2. Aero Flame 18:59, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Current and past?

Why is XP already moved to "Past versions"? It will remain a "Current version" as long as it's still selling! --Arny 04:17, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

This is so because Vista is the current version, the latest version of Windows from Microsoft, and XP is not. It doesn't matter weather it is still selling or not. You could buy windows ME or 2000, or even 98; and that doesn't make it the "current" version. Aero Flame 12:47, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Another issue, some aspects of the list need reworking, specifically "NT based" list doesn't really list all NT-based versions... --Arny 04:29, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Support for Windows XP will continue for quite some time. That, and I do believe more people use XP than Vista. Wouldn't that make it a 'current' version? Perhaps a different label should be used, such as 'most recent release' or something. 124.171.191.88 (talk) 10:34, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Obviously. Windows Vista has only just been released - give it a chance! And once Service Pack 1 is released, it will fix many problems. :) --Aero Flame (talk) 12:05, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Windows NT Errors

For a start, windows nt 4 never ran on IA64. Furthermore, Both Windows 2003 and XP should be included under NT-kernel based, rather than given own sections.

[edit] Error

"2007 - Windows Server "Longhorn", codename for the next server operating system from Microsoft. It is now Windows Vista." - I don't whether I am reading this correctly but this seems to make out that Windows Server "Longhorn" has been renamed to Windows Vista, which I thought it hadn't. Rather I don't think Microsoft have even given this product a final name yet, though many seem to think it will probably be names Windows Server 2007 or 2008. Any thoughts?

You are right. And it will be called "Windows Server 2008". Aero Flame 19:54, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleaned Up

I have cleaned up the section "Past Versions". Exothermic Reaction 21:44, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List should be updated

I've read recently the July 2007 issue of Popular Mechanics and it says that there is a new version of Windows that was kept top secret for seven years and "it's the coffee table that will change the world." This new version of Windows needs no keyboard or mouse and will be hand on. The new "OS" is called Windows Milan and I suggest that the "List of MS Windows versions should include this revoultionary piece of technology. For more info see [1].121.97.170.117 10:53, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

The OS will only be available for the "coffee table computer", and not much information if known about it, except as you said, it will have no keyboard and mouse. The surface of it will be the screen, and user interface (the touch screen). Also, it will have very good built in wireless capabilities (you'll be able to transfer a photo from your camera, to your phone without any wires, and without syncing it by 'dragging' the 'photo' across to the phone, when it is on the table!), and will only be available for places like hotels (but later homes). They only have one or two years left, and it will be ready to buy.It will cost about £3000. Exothermic Reaction 22:36, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Microsoft Surface, also known as Milan, is not a Microsoft Windows version but rather a computer model running the Windows Vista operating system. See Microsoft Surface for details. Phil ryans 10:51, 27 September 2007 (UTC)