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aspirational - aspire.

I think in Ancient Greek, spire was to breathe and it was thought that the breathe was a marker of the soul. (Sneeze? God Bless you!)

Hence, a great deal of spiritually natured words have the word spire (and churches have spires). So it's okay that it brings that to mind. It should.

Windows NT was built on a new kernel and was the first true 32bit version of windows.

It included the Win32 API which is the 32 bit Windows API used in modern versions of windows.

Marketing labeled it Windows NT 3.1 to continue the brand, but it was a new OS, version 1.

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Thanks for the list 3mpire. So in Microsoft's reality 3.1 is 1, 4 is 3, and 2000 is 4. That's going to give the math processors some headaches.

Apple:"It just works!"::Microsoft:"It just sounds good..."

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1 = Windows NT 3.1

2 = Windows NT 3.5

3 = Windows NT 4.0

4 = Windows 2000

5 = Windows XP

6 = Windows Vista

7 = Windows 7

By the way, haven't there been more than six previous versions of Windows? Let's see: Windows 95; Windows 2000; Windows XP; Vista; Windows 1, 2 & 3; Windows NT; Windows 98; Windows ME; Windows Server or something like that. Am I forgetting anything?

Sounds to me like instead of being 'aspirational' (I'll use my Nissan Maxima, Ford Aspira and Hyundai Excel for that, thank you), they're just rolling the dice.

And, as we all know, seven is a very lucky number. Well, at least in western cultures. I guess the Chinese will just have to wait until Windows 8.

"someone having trouble breathing. *gasp* XP *wheeze* "

Can you say 'target demographic'?

The word "aspirational" makes me think of someone having trouble breathing. *gasp* XP *wheeze*

If that's what XP means, it would've been more aspirational if they'd just called it UP!

IN LIKE FLYNN!

XP is aspirational in that it stood for (un)eXpected Pinnacle. It all went downhill from that point forward.

That'd just be Windows dressing.

You mean it isn't gonna be called 'Mojave'?