"Maybe if we skip a version number, they'll think it's an even newer and better version..." No but my guess is that 8 bombed so hard that they didn't want to s

"Maybe if we skip a version number, they'll think it's an even newer and better version..." No but my guess is that 8 bombed so hard that they didn't want to sell it as 9 since that would make it specifically a successor to 8 (which it is, but we wouldn't want the consumers to know). Same way we got 7 instead of Vista 2 or whatever. They want 10 to seem like a new hip thing instead of a desperate attempt to fix their mess.