Heh. Here's a very logical reason why MS went with Windows 10 and not nine:
http://www.cnet.com/news/is-this-why...it-windows-10/
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Yet no explanation seems to come close to matching that of a self-described Microsoft developer who goes by the name cranbourne on the social news site Reddit. The user points the finger at Microsoft's almost 20-year-old releases that helped make the software maker a household name during the rise of the PC:
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.
"Having worked on the Windows compatibility team before, I have no difficulty believing this," wrote user richkzad in response. There are in fact examples of this on publicly available code repositories.
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In other words, a lot of existing software, upon seeing "Windows 9" would switch to Win95/98 code and would misbehave and have to be rewritten.
Windows 10 won't have that problem because there is virtually no Windows 1.x software still in use. (There should be none but it is a near certainty that somewhere, somebody has some Win1 code running.)
