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Ah, that makes sense. I thought it was because they wanted to go to 10, like Mac OS X. Same as the Xbox 360 was called that because they didn’t want to bring o
by mattkevan 6y ago
Ah, that makes sense.
I thought it was because they wanted to go to 10, like Mac OS X. Same as the Xbox 360 was called that because they didn’t want to bring out the Xbox 2 when Sony was bringing out the PS3.
- deberon 6y agoThat doesn’t explain the naming of Xbox One though.
- mortenjorck 6y agoThat name was chosen for the console’s original (if largely abandoned) vision of being a single hub for gaming, live TV, and streaming: https://www.vg247.com/2013/05/28/xbox-one-microsoft-exec-explains-consoles-name/ https://www.vg247.com/2013/05/28/xbox-one-microsoft-exec-exp...
- Kipters 6y agoIt also ties in with Microsoft's "One" line of names: OneDrive, OneNote, OneCore etc
- peterburkimsher 6y agoI also thought it was because of TenVer! "Windows 9x" makes more sense. https://github.com/cube-drone/tenver https://github.com/cube-drone/tenver Like Spinal Tap, now it's time that this one goes to 11.