Why Did Microsoft Skip Windows 9?
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced and offered a preview of Windows 10. Code-named Threshold many expected the next operating system to be called Windows 9. After all, Windows 8.1 was the name of the latest release. No one at the announcement really explained skipping 9 in the naming scheme, but some information has been leaked. Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form if(version.StartsWith(“Windows 9”)) { /* 95 and 98 */ } else { So,…
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