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I was waiting for Microsoft to release a Windows 00 or Windows 01.

• mark-r 7y ago
  That was never going to happen, because too many apps use poor logic for determining which version of Windows they are compatible with. This is the same reason there was never a Windows 9, because too many apps checked the first character of the version and if it was "9" they assumed Windows 95 or Windows 98.
  • frosted-flakes 7y ago
    Is that actually the case, or is it just a rumour? The version number never matched the OS name until Windows 10, and Windows already has a very robust backwards compatibility framework that can simulate older OSs, so I'm not sure why that would be a problem. Windows 95 is version 4.10, XP is v5.1/v5.2, Vista is v6.0, Windows 8.1 is v6.3, and Windows 10 is v10.0.
    • mark-r 7y ago
      I can't say I know of a specific app that had the bad version check. But given Microsoft's devotion to keeping old things working when you upgrade, it at least seems plausible. This is the closest I can find to a definitive statement: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x/ https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_wind...