Hey Cody, good question;
ohhhhhhhh I know I know... though I'm sure lots of others do too.
Probably the only significant reason is that the integer (the part of the
number on the left side of the decimal) is used to indicate a major release,
or one that has very different properties from the release which came before
it. The number on the right side (the decimal portion) is just there to
indicate exactly which minor release it is so that it's features can be
quickly and easily identified by users, programmers and marketers. Minor
releases are often created only to fix bugs which users report, or to create
relatively insignificant changes to the product in order to increase
usability based on user's feedback.
Almost always a major release, one that is indicated by a whole number,
encompasses a significant amount of time since the prior, lots of user
feedback, significant cost and broad overall design considerations. If the
product is not an operating system itself, sometimes a major release will
coincide with a major operating system update, such as the introduction of
Windows XP.
Hope that helps.
Dino Cardamone
Pittsburgh, PA USA
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Subject: version numbers
Hey does anyone know why we have version numbers. For example, theres JAWS
5.0 4.51, and Keysoft 5.0, Duxbury 1.5. Why do we write them as decimals.
Why can't 1.5 just be 15.
Cody
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