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But why would Microsoft care about that? Having the bigger OS number is really unimportant, else ChromeOS would dominate at version 90. Also, if that was really

But why would Microsoft care about that? Having the bigger OS number is really unimportant, else ChromeOS would dominate at version 90. Also, if that was really the case, they should've made the jump earlier and/or directly go to 12.

jlokier 5y ago
Firefox is at about version 90 too. Perhaps Windows and MacOS track version numbers the same way as Firefox and Chrome.
pansa2 5y ago
> Having the bigger OS number is really unimportant I can tell that you don’t work in marketing.
byecomputer 5y ago
Marketing. People got downright hyphy about Big Sur and the M1 chip, and Microsoft, by comparison, has had virtually zero excitement points in the past decade. Having a new product renews interest in the brand. I haven't run Windows in years, but you bet your ass that when I saw 'Windows 11' I was like, whoa, what's this all about? Turns out it's a pretty tame, incremental update with a major version number slapped on, but I still clicked to find out what was up. That's worth something.
bombcar 5y ago
90 is super far out - obviously out of scope. But when numbers are close they get compared. (I personally think we may see MacOS numbers start to move about as fast as iPhone numbers)