Re: ADT Pro With Windows 7 (64-Bit)

[Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com>]

On Jun 17, 11:35 am, "Jeff Blakeney"
<jeff.blake...@a2central.com.remove-n6t-this> wrote:
>   To: Eric Rucker
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:25:59 -0700, Eric Rucker wrote:
> > No, it hasn't been released yet, but it's currently version 6.1, and
> > it's already in release candidate stage. And, the Windows team has
> > said that they're releasing it as NT 6.1:
> >http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/10/14/why-...
>
> What I get from that site is that they want to call it NT 7.0 but
> because some developer's were messed up by changing the version number
> of Vista to NT 6.0 from XP's NT 5.1, they decided to only change it to
> NT 6.1 as those developer's didn't have a problem with the change from
> 2000's NT 5.0 to XP's NT 5.1.
>
> That's got to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.  Just
> tell developer's to check for a MINIMUM version number and assume
> anything newer will be compatible.  That's the way these things usually
> go.

I didn't say it made sense. (And, really, Windows 7 IS more of a 6.1,
in the same way that Windows 3.1 was a minor release (under the hood,
anyway) that had major impact and Windows XP was a minor release that
had major impact.)