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Version parity with competitors. It's stupid but a thing. At least they didn't straight up call it Windows X.
by k12sosse 5y ago
Version parity with competitors. It's stupid but a thing. At least they didn't straight up call it Windows X.
- wtallis 5y agoIt was less about version parity with Apple and more about avoiding bugs in applications that would have mistaken a Windows 9 for a member of the 95/98/98SE family.
- tasogare 5y agoThat's the technical excuse they come with afterwards. The fact is while Mac Os was stuck in version X (ten), Microsoft decided to make a perpetual Windows 10 version. Now that Apple moved up to 11 and now 12, Windows is moving to 11 too. That's a big "coincidence"...
- Sebb767 5y agoBut what for? Do you really think they think people will stand in a shop and say "that laptop is only at 10, I take the one at 11"? Also, if that was indeed the intention, they should've moved for 11 earlier. The technical explanation seems far more reasonable.
- sblom 5y agoBut today's announcement would have been Windows 10X if it hadn't been canceled...