{"id":516,"date":"2009-04-20T19:09:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2009\/04\/20\/windows-7-to-also-be-version-7-of-the-windows-kernel.aspx"},"modified":"2009-04-20T19:09:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T19:09:09","slug":"windows-7-to-also-be-version-7-of-the-windows-kernel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 to also be version 7 of the Windows kernel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost anyone who has been following the development of Windows 7 knows that it&#8217;s currently kernel version 6.1. But all that could be set to change, at least if an obscure MSDN page is to be believed.   <br \/>In a page describing device installation with the Windows Driver Kit, the documentation shows &#8220;Msft.NT.7.0&#8221; being used as a label to specify drivers only for use with Windows 7.    <br \/>Previously, Neowin reported that Mike Nash, Corporate VP of Windows Product Management, posted on on the Windows Vista Team Blog with the official explanation that Windows 7 would be kernel version 6.1.<\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/main\/09\/04\/20\/windows-7-to-also-be-version-7-of-the-windows-kernel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/main\/09\/04\/20\/windows-7-to-also-be-version-7-of-the-windows-kernel\">http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/main\/09\/04\/20\/windows-7-to-also-be-version-7-of-the-windows-kernel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost anyone who has been following the development of Windows 7 knows that it&#8217;s currently kernel version 6.1. But all that could be set to change, at least if an obscure MSDN page is to be believed. In a page describing device installation with the Windows Driver Kit, the documentation shows &#8220;Msft.NT.7.0&#8221; being used as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}