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Originally Posted by j.p.s
So that just leaves 7 ate 9 as the reason?
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Wow, who ever thought that would come up in a real world situation?!
Seriously though, I think the real reasons are the obvious and stated ones:
They caught up with OSX. They did the same thing when then jumped Word from 2.0 to 6.0 to catch up with WordPerfect.
And it sounds more impressive than 9.
And they used the opportunity to make a clean break from the past and sync up name and version number.