Microsoft’s big Windows 10 announcement took place this Tuesday, October 30th. The computer giant’s new operating system does it all. It brings back the Start button, brings back focus to non-touch devices and even unifies devices of all screen sizes.
But wait… what happened with Windows 9? This is a question most of the internet has been asking since the announcement concluded. Did Microsoft forget how to count? Was Windows 8 so bad they just wanted to distance themselves from it as much as possible? Is it because 7… 8 9?
This situation is the source of many a joke, but it seems Microsoft has a good reason to take this approach on the new operating system’s naming scheme.
Windows 10 as the last Microsoft OS?
The most plausible explanation comes from the guys at Zdnet. The number 10 signifies completion, as well as new beginnings, which is what the new Windows version is all about.
Microsoft wanted to choose the right name for the very last major update to come. It’s said all coming updates will be smaller, and will simply be slight improvements over the same code base.
It’s meant to be the software that Microsoft will keep, and it will only change gradually, not in huge updates that come years apart. This could be the reason previous rumors said Microsoft would name this OS something like Windows One, Windows X or simply Windows.
And since this operating system is meant to work with screens of all sizes, this may be a move that could work. I can’t imagine keeping Windows 10 forever, though. Even if the changes are there.
Coding discrepancies
You have not been the only one wondering about this numbering mystery. The guys at Reddit have been all over the issue and they got what could be a sensible answer from a user who claims to be a Microsoft developer.
Reddit use cranbourne mentions the following:
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 {
and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that.
This could make sense, and naming the new OS Windows 10 would be an easy way to avoid issues with such codes. This is still unverified information, though, and the top story makes more sense to me. What do you think? Do you think there are other reasons why Microsoft skipped Windows 9?
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