Talk:Microsoft Version Number

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is part of WikiProject Microsoft Windows, a WikiProject devoted to maintaining and improving the informative value and quality of Wikipedia's many Microsoft Windows articles.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on WikiProject Microsoft Windows's importance scale.

[edit] Version numbers since Windows XP

My version number in IE is this: 6.0.2900.2180.xp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158. So I'm not sure it really follow the format described in the article. Since Windows XP (and I believe this tradition is followed in Windows Longhorn from the alphas I've checked), Microsoft's numbers follow the format: MajorVersion.MinorVersion.BuildNumber.RevisionNumber.BuildType.CompilationDate. It's 6 sections, with the fifth (and none else AFAIK) being alphanumeric. CompilationDate is using date in the ISO standardized format, along with a 24-hour "military" time after the dash (unsure of which time zone), so mine would be 2004-08-03, 21:58. This article says they use the format PrimaryVersion.SecondaryVersion.BuildNumber.ComplexNumber, with the last "the SP release, international client pack, and hotfix numbers". I'm not sure what all that means, really. Besides any necessary revisions to the article if it's wrong, I think it should include a descriptive example. Note: This format is new for Windows XP and onwards, I know there was some differences in Windows 2000, so maybe this is why there's confusion. -- Jugalator July 7, 2005 21:56 (UTC)