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That may be true for some things, but for example imagine being on the core Windows team in the early 2010s working on the next version of Windows (Windows 10).
by JohnWhigham 5y ago
That may be true for some things, but for example imagine being on the core Windows team in the early 2010s working on the next version of Windows (Windows 10). Given all the baggage of Windows and how committed it is to backwards compatibility, are you going to decide to name the next version of Windows "Windows 9" and deal with the endless deluge of your customer's bemoaning, or are you going to save everyone a lot of headache and just go straight to 10?
- kzrdude 5y agoThere was no big downside to skipping 9, so why not do that. Make a decade-long transition plan, I don't care. As long as there is a plan.
- bonoboTP 5y agoWhat's your point with 9 vs 10? It's just a marketing naming decision.
- Szpadel 5y agoThis was technical issue. Windows 9 had issue that a lot of software had checks if this is windows 95/98 by comparing only windows 9 part, this caused in testing that some software was throwing errors on windows 9, that you need something like windows xp