as I was pointing out on another thread regarding what AmigaOS was orignally called.......M$ OS's are not exactly as clear cut as the label suggests.
1. PCDOS/MSDOS Version 1 to 7 could be loaded with the Windows 1.0 to Windows ME GUI respectively. (Ok by the time of 95,98 and ME the lines were blurring somewhat but you could boot and run software using a single boot disk with no GUI in sight.)
2. Windows NT 3.1 for Intel IA-32, MIPS R3000/R4000 and Alpha, with PowerPC, Itanium and AMD64 was fully GUI running for the first time ntoskrnl.exe which did not run on top of any other OS Kernel with its own HAL.
3. Windows NT 3.5
4. Windows NT 4.0
5. Windows 2000/2000 Server (Version 5)
6. Windows XP/2003 Server (Version 5.1)
7. Windows Vista/2008 Server and Windows 7/Windows 2008 R2 (Version 6 and 6.1)
Thats were I see we are at, as the underlying Windows 7 OS is still Vista but tweaked. ( I think I read somewhere they have same internal version no.)
But I would suggest like Windows 98 Se and Me....Vista is toast compared to Windows 7 the experience is excellent generally.
