The Old New Thing

How to tell the poseurs from the actual Windows developers

May 7, 2013 May 7, 2013 05/7/13

Raymond Chen

Poseurs will call Windows versions by their programmatic version numbers. For example, they will call Windows Vista "NT6" and Windows 7 "NT6.1". Trust me, nobody on the Windows team calls the products by their programmatic version numbers. Whenever anybody says "NT6" I have to go to Wikipedia and look up what they're actually talking ...