"A couple of commenters offer these answers: david writes, "because version 1.x and 2.x were not truly windows but DOS :) - Only from 3.x, they had GUI and the ability to 'multi-tasking."
This article, about the forthcoming "Windows 7" release in 2010 tries to explain how this is really the 7th iteration of Windows. Truth is I see a lot, a whole lot, missing. Where is Microsoft Bob? Why not expand on the "aspirational name" of NT (New Technology)? If you consider Windows 1.x and 2.x to be "DOS" then to that point so was 3.x, 95, 98 and ME. Heck, where in the article is ME mentioned? Nowhere. Trust me, I'd like to forget a few of those releases as well.
And why oh why does this so-called David make the inexcusable comment that Windows 3.x did multi-tasking? AHHH!! My eyes nearly went blind reading that. Windows was a single-task operating system that *tried* to emulate multitasking using share.exe. It was an abomination. The true desktop multitasking OS of the day was OS/2, most of which Microsoft wrote under contract for IBM ironically. OS/2 is *STILL* the best operating system ever producted out of Redmond.
NT was the first true multitasking OS from Microsoft and that was because they were able to hire some key DEC talent and basically rip off the guts of VMS.
Be that as it may, Windows 7 is on the way. I'll hope for the best and deal with what is delivered then.
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