• ElGosso [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The story I heard was that they skipped it because a lot of lazy programmers would tell their programs to look for "Windows 9" to see if it was Windows 95 or 98, and so it would have caused a lot of compatibility problems.

    No I don't know what this means for 10/11

    • Lil_Revolitionary [she/her,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I think that's just the excuse they use. If executives wanted to call it windows 9, programmers would've found a way. My theory (that I havent thought about critically in years) is that they did it to make Windows 7 look outdated, convincing people to "upgrade" to a system supposedly 3 versions ahead