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My personal theory is that Microsoft probably thought Apple would stay on 10 forever, but with M1 macOS moved to 11. 11 > 10...

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Because I have a very low opinion of most marketing people that seems plausible to me, but Mac and Windows seem to have such wildly different markets that I think it is unlikely.
- delecti 5y ago
  Seriously. I can't imagine anyone whose decision between a Mac and a Windows PC is a complete dead tie, except for Mac OS being 11 compared to Windows' lowly 10.
  - asddubs 5y ago
    <points at macbook> this one goes to 11
    - type0 5y ago
      Thermally it actually does and the CPU begins to throttle.
    - Gravityloss 5y ago
      The first version of Windows 11 with all out Arm support will be called "Large Surf"
delta1 5y ago
“Windows Infinity” done.
- athenot 5y ago
  To be followed by "Windows Infinity SP2". We joke but these are marketing names intended to make a big deal of a large batch of features. With today's continuous delivery (ie. incremental upgrades) this is no longer needed, at least not for technical reasons. But from a marketing perspective, it provides the opportunity to generate buzz in the news with "OMG best version yet"-style announcements.
- lostmsu 5y ago
  Then Apple will switch to transfinite cardinal numbers.
AlexandrB 5y ago
I thought the only reason they went from 8 to 10 was because "Windows 9" might be a match for application regexs trying to match Windows 9x. Edit: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/191279-why-is-it-called-windows-10-not-windows-9 https://www.extremetech.com/computing/191279-why-is-it-calle...
- JohnTHaller 5y ago
  That was a big part of it. I know a lot of software did the lazy check for that versioning-wise back in the day.
hughrr 5y ago
On a positive note at least everyone has got over this allergy to incrementing versions. Hopefully they’ll get over the allergy of anything but rolling releases next so we can have some stability and lifecycle control back again.
Razengan 5y ago
They jumped from 8 to 10 for the same reasons after all
alexvoda 5y ago
Is there a name for this phenomenon? It happened with a lot of other software (Firefox vs Chrome is just one example). Version number envy?

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago

Because I have a very low opinion of most marketing people that seems plausible to me, but Mac and Windows seem to have such wildly different markets that I think it is unlikely.

delecti 5y ago
Seriously. I can't imagine anyone whose decision between a Mac and a Windows PC is a complete dead tie, except for Mac OS being 11 compared to Windows' lowly 10.
- asddubs 5y ago
  <points at macbook> this one goes to 11
  - type0 5y ago
    Thermally it actually does and the CPU begins to throttle.
  - Gravityloss 5y ago
    The first version of Windows 11 with all out Arm support will be called "Large Surf"

delta1 5y ago

“Windows Infinity” done.

athenot 5y ago
To be followed by "Windows Infinity SP2". We joke but these are marketing names intended to make a big deal of a large batch of features. With today's continuous delivery (ie. incremental upgrades) this is no longer needed, at least not for technical reasons. But from a marketing perspective, it provides the opportunity to generate buzz in the news with "OMG best version yet"-style announcements.
lostmsu 5y ago
Then Apple will switch to transfinite cardinal numbers.

AlexandrB 5y ago

I thought the only reason they went from 8 to 10 was because "Windows 9" might be a match for application regexs trying to match Windows 9x. Edit: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/191279-why-is-it-called-windows-10-not-windows-9 https://www.extremetech.com/computing/191279-why-is-it-calle...

JohnTHaller 5y ago
That was a big part of it. I know a lot of software did the lazy check for that versioning-wise back in the day.

hughrr 5y ago

On a positive note at least everyone has got over this allergy to incrementing versions. Hopefully they’ll get over the allergy of anything but rolling releases next so we can have some stability and lifecycle control back again.

Razengan 5y ago

They jumped from 8 to 10 for the same reasons after all

alexvoda 5y ago

Is there a name for this phenomenon? It happened with a lot of other software (Firefox vs Chrome is just one example). Version number envy?