Should we break up the Windows
version tags into categories?
Sometimes when I ask a question about Windows 8
, I'm afraid more people have Windows 7
than 8
, and so more people with Windows 7
would answer it than people with 8
, but if they're only looking at Windows 7
questions (or they think "Windows 8
is stupid, so I won't help people with it, because they're stupid") they won't find my question and so won't answer it. Heck, most solutions to Windows 8
are probably applicable to Vista
or even XP
.
However, we'd need to draw the line somewhere. For example, the Start menu
was first created for 95
, so while most questions about it could apply to 95
-7
(and sometimes 8
), they wouldn't apply before 95
. Hence, categories. Maybe we could have 1 category for versions before 95
, another for versions 95
-Me
maybe, then another for anything after. I know we could have a tag for Windows-9x
or Windows-NT
, but considering 1. we don't have either, and 2. they might be confusing to non-technical users (i.e. Windows-9x
could apply to 2000
), do you guys like this idea, or could you propose an alternative?
Thinking ahead, maybe we could make something like this a standard feature.