There was never really any consistent list of Windows versions you could come up with that would lead to "Windows 7" actually being the 7th version. So it's not

There was never really any consistent list of Windows versions you could come up with that would lead to "Windows 7" actually being the 7th version. So it's not like the numbers mean much anyway. Why not 10? [1] [1] Maybe they should have gone for 11, since it's one more.