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Serious question. What happened to windows 9?
by mkoryak 11y ago
Serious question. What happened to windows 9?
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- RavenMystral 11y agoOnly speculation, no official sources. Due to possible confusion, Windows 9 never existed. If one were to search Windows 9, there may be resualts of Windows 95/8 instead of the proper result.
- sthatipamala 11y agoAnother speculation: Some software identified Windows 95/98 using some equivalent of osName.startsWith("Windows 9"). Naming the OS "Windows 9" would mess with that.
- gregmac 11y agoBecause seven eight nine. One theory[1] is that during testing, much old apps were found to use: if (version.StarstWith("Windows 9") { // windows 95/98 } else .... [1] http://www.extremetech.com/computing/191279-why-is-it-called-windows-10-not-windows-9 http://www.extremetech.com/computing/191279-why-is-it-called...
- WorldMaker 11y agoI did a Google Code Search at one point (too lazy to replicate) and found that exact code in a ton of Java files, including what appeared to be still shipping code from the Oracle JVM. Thanks, Java.
- SmellyGeekBoy 11y agoIn addition to the other answers, I assume that Windows 95/98 historically being identified as "Windows 9x" probably has something to do with it as well.