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The anecdotal reason (from reddit[1]) was that it would have broken to much third party code doing checks for Windows 95/98. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/techn

• TillE 11y ago
  This keeps getting mentioned in various places, but it's nonsense. We're talking about a tiny number of obscure Java programs which do the insane thing of checking OS version by string rather than with numbers. For the five people on Earth actually affected by this, there's always compatibility mode.
  • bsilvereagle 11y ago
    When this first started to be mentioned, I saw multiple people claiming drivers checking for 95/98 was the driving factor. There are a lot of obscure drivers still in production and I don't know of a 'compatibility mode' for drivers.