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Well they could have called it Windows 8.2, no?

• shawabawa3 13y ago
  Technically they could have, but do they have any history of doing that? (edit: didn't realise they released 8.1, thought it was SP1. I guess I partially retract how stupid I think the sentence is) The sentence would have made a bit of sense if they had gone back to vista style naming, and called it windows <name> or something. But the last 2 releases have been called 7 and 8, is 9 really distancing itself from 8?
  • chaz 13y ago
    Yes, I would consider a full version increment to be a distancing. Most press that I've seen had been considering Windows "Threshold" (codename) as Windows 8.2. https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+8.2 https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+8.2 Windows Phone went from 7 to 7.5, and then to 8. It's possible that they could have gone with Windows 8.5, too.
  • greenyoda 13y ago
    "Technically they could have, but do they have any history of doing that?" Before they started giving Windows releases cute names, Microsoft used to have version numbers like "Windows 3.1", "Windows NT 3.51", etc.