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That only tells me something about naming? I have no clue how many LTS or non-LTS versions were between the one that shipped with windows 10 and 10.0.22621.900. For all I know, that could be like Linux 2.something being all the way from 1996 to 2011, except that Linux 3.something had a major change of "NOTHING. Absolutely nothing." except for a shiny new number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel).

So honest question: What does 10.0.22621.900 mean? Is 10.0.X.Y supported for a decade or is that discontinued at some point and I am forced to upgrade to 10.0.X+10,Y-5?



10.0 is the current and latest NT kernel and it's LTS like the rest of Microsoft's Windows offerings. Much like how Linux 6.1 is an LTS.


That does not answer the question? 10.0.22621.900 seems to be the latest and 10.0 just a prefix for all of them.

As an example from https://superuser.com/questions/296020/windows-kernel-name-v... lists

> 6.1.7600.16385, 6.1.7600.16539, 6.1.7600.16617, 6.1.7600.16695, 6.1.7600.16792, 6.1.7600.20655, 6.1.7600.20738, 6.1.7600.20826, 6.1.7600.20941, 6.1.7601.17514, 6.1.7601.17592, 6.1.7601.21701

Are these all just 6.1? Or is 7601 a different version than 7600? Could I choose to stay on 7600 and get backports or do I have to switch to 7601?


You could choose to stay on Windows 7, that is NT 6.1, and Microsoft will still backport updates from newer kernels such as NT 6.2 and NT 10.0 for the support life of NT 6.1.


That is nice, but that was not my question?


>Are these all just 6.1?

Yes. The numbers after the Major.Minor numbers are just revision and build numbers of little consequence for most people.

Are you here for thoughtful conversation or are you just being a Micro$oft Windoze troll? Because I can't tell; I would presume most people here know how to read version numbers.


I had to ask you three(!) times to finally get an answer to a simple question and then you go "major versions are obviously of little consequence; that is why they are called major". Clearly someone is trolling, but it isn't me.




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