If you don't know what happened to 9, I'm kind of delighted to inform you that the version number was skipped because of all the legacy applications out there t

If you don't know what happened to 9, I'm kind of delighted to inform you that the version number was skipped because of all the legacy applications out there that matched against a string value of "Windows 9?" to determine if the OS was Windows 95 or Windows 98, instead of checking the actual version number that gets returned when you type ver in the command line.