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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.
by 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 agoThat was a big part of it. I know a lot of software did the lazy check for that versioning-wise back in the day.