This hypothesis is supported by this redditor's comment, who is apparently an MS dev: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_wil

This hypothesis is supported by this redditor's comment, who is apparently an MS dev: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windo... Also supported by this code search, which turns up a few classes in the JDK using this sort of check: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2i14ny/if_osnamestartswithwindows_9/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2i14ny/if_osnam...