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📅 The web's go-to resource for Calendar Versioning info.
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Windows 10 provides a better example of CalVer than older Windows releases. #9

Open kepstin opened 5 years ago

kepstin commented 5 years ago

The current example with Microsoft Windows shows 95, 98, 2000 - but Microsoft hasn't used this scheme in, well, 18 years now.

However - they are using CalVer to describe their updates to Windows 10! See https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows-10/release-information https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4099479/windows-10-update-history

Where the version number (major update) uses the format YY0M, giving examples like "Windows 10 version 1703"

mahmoud commented 5 years ago

Nice! Let's find some way to work that into the site :)

As for the older examples, I still like to keep them around because 1) They establish a long history of CalVer, this isn't newfangled stuff 2) they were very much consumer-focused, and even non-technical users seemed to have no trouble parsing the year-version connection and 3) they hearken back to an age of Windows some might fondly remember as golden.

But that's great news about the the updates, could I convince you to make a PR?