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They skipped 9 because they thought ten sounded better. This Reddit post says otherwise[1]: Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing re
by tonyedgecombe 5y ago
They skipped 9 because they thought ten sounded better.
This Reddit post says otherwise[1]:
Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form
if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9"))
{ /* 95 and 98 */
} else {
and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x/ https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_wind...
- Dylan16807 5y agoHi I already addressed that in my post. That code would not fail. The only plausible version of that I've seen was Java code, and the Java runtime would not have returned "Windows 9" to that API unless deliberately changed to do so. Not to be rude, but did you skip the second line of my post after reading the first one? Your reply confuses me if you didn't.