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An upgrade; the underlying technology in Windows hasn't changed significantly since Vista.

• stephengillie 12y ago
  It reminds me of the Model Year - We're still on Windows Model Year 2008.
  • wvenable 12y ago
    Windows 10 was version 6.4 internally but it sounds like they're going to go make it 10.0 on release. (Windows 8.1 is 6.3 and Windows 7 is 6.1 and Vista is 6.0)
    • stephengillie 12y ago
      I haven't used Win10 yet. I'm curious if they've rewritten some of the core components like they did for the 2003-2008 jump. Things like IIS, Task Scheduler engine, & Security (UAC elevation).
    • chadzawistowski 12y ago
      That's not correct - Tech Preview already shows the version 10.0.build# Conceptually Windows 10 would/could have been 6.4, but it isn't.
• tracker1 12y ago
  In the same vein... Windows Vista hadn't changed significantly since XP, or XP since 2000, or 2000 since NT 3.5.1, etc. It's all iterative and subject to perspective here.
  • 4ad 12y ago
    2003 -> Vista was the big change. All others were minor by comparison. Plus we were talking about the deployment/upgrade technology.
    • tracker1 12y ago
      But how "big" those changes are, is pretty subjective unless you're talking a pretty narrow context... the UI changed significantly in any number of areas between releases... if you have to access those a lot, that change is huge... to you. Frankly, I don't find any of them too different from each prior version... over time they're more significant.