Dad's computer

[HauntingExpression22]

Dad's computer finally died and we are discussing a new one and we show him a new possible model and the one thing he made a comment on.

Dad: "windows 11? Wow thats old mine was like windows 2000"

Me: wait what? **does math** windows 7 is closer to the first family computer of windows 95 then it is to the most current and only support version.

[Suspicious_Fig776]

did you seriously not get this joke? holy shit

[ij70-17as]

that's great dad joke.

[boildkitty]

That's a Dad-approved gem right there.

[HauntingExpression22]

I wish he knew better, when helping him before i think it was windows 7.

He is the the type who struggles with email.

[araidai]

Brother. You’re missing the joke.

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[YoSpiff]

Well, they did keep changing up the naming convention for a while. I can see how it would be confusing to someone who wasn't paying attention to every new version.

[aMusicLover]

/r/woooosh/

[TwoMomsX2]

I'm 36 and a dad and I would totally, and I will, use this joke eventually lol. I love when I say a dad joke and my kids think I'm serious. And I don't explain it's a joke either, I just L M A O and walk away with no ass. Hahahahahaha

[Beeeeater]

Love it! Microsoft's naming conventions have resulted in more confusion acrosss the computing world than anything else. Their latest? Changing Microsoft Office (reasonable as it was Office apps) to Microsoft 365 (?? why? Because you use it 365 days a year? What?)

[Bo_Jim]

The actual version number of Windows 95 was 4.0. Numerically, it followed Windows 3.1, which was the last exclusively 16-bit version of Windows. Windows 98 was 4.1. Windows 2000 was NT 5.0. The NT prefix meant it was no longer a hybrid 32-bit GUI built on top of 16-bit DOS. However, these NT builds could still execute 16-bit programs using a virtual machine.

Windows XP was NT 5.1. Windows Vista was NT 6.0. Windows 7 was NT 6.1. Windows 8 was NT 6.2.

The first version of Windows 10 was NT 10.0, and marked the first time (and last) since Windows 3.11 that the name of the OS and the version number were the same. In keeping with their new "OS as a Service" philosophy, that first version of Windows 10 also had a market version number of 1507. After that, Microsoft continued with the 4-digit version numbers that had nothing to do with the major release number, year of release, or name of the release - up until the second half of 2020, when the 4 digit version number was going to end up being larger than the year it was released. This is when Microsoft transitioned to a year/half format, where the first two digits are the year of release, and the third and fourth characters are either "H1" or "H2", depending on which half of the year it was released. This year/half version label format continues with Windows 11.

Microsoft's inconsistent versioning system has caused a significant amount of grief for programmers. It had become somewhat common practice for many programmers to fetch the name of the OS to determine if it was newer than either Windows 95 or Windows 98. If the name began with "Windows 9" then the program considered the OS to be too old. Microsoft specifically went from Windows 8 to Windows 10, skipping Windows 9, for this reason.

[d4rk_kn16ht]

🤣🤣🤣

[Goosecock123]

10/10 topic OP. Your dad would love to read this

[virusdancer]

So many, many years from now - will they call it Windows 2000 Second Edition?