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We'd made this change before, then dropped it when we hit the "year zero" problem. We were doing years without abbreviation before the numbers went from 80s an
by Terretta 1y ago
We'd made this change before, then dropped it when we hit the "year zero" problem.
We were doing years without abbreviation before the numbers went from 80s and 90s to 00s.
Everyone knew what "Product 95" was, or "Product 97".
But then "Product 0" or "Product 2" didn't work, so vendors switched to major versions instead of years.
A quarter century later, we're reviving the year as version thing.
- basisword 1y agoWe had Windows 2000 :) I look forward to Window 95 (v2) in 70 years. Number versioning is fine until you are releasing a new OS every year. Same with the phones. It's just too hard to keep track of at a certain point for consumers. yyyy.mm.dd style versioning is much better when you're releasing at the rate companies do these days imo.