Love your theories, both reasonable. However, I think this is a case of marketing versions. I'll bet if we look under the hood, it's something obscene like Windows 5.5.9876 or so. This is the company that made:
Windows 3 Windows 3.11 Windows 95 Windows NT Windows NT 3.51 WIndows 98 Windows NT 4 Windows Me Windows 2000 Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 8 So, there's not a lot of allegiance to rational numbering. As one wit on Twitter suggested [1] "So, MS doesn't want Win10 to be WinX? If it wipes away the memories of greasy fingerprints of Win8, perhaps they could try WindX?" [1] https://twitter.com/tedroche/status/519845882322104321 On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Dan Covill <dan.cov...@outlook.com> wrote: > There are two candidates for a reasonable explanation. > 1. Windows 8 has acquired such a reputation that no enterprise > willconsider using it or any variation. Win 9 is considered an upgrade to > 8 so is also Taboo. Windows 10 creates a perceived distance. > 2. Loads of applications developed in the NT/2000/XP era check to > seewhether they're running on old 'Personal' windows (95 or 98) or on > the'New Technology' versions. They do this by looking for a '9'. > Maybe MS can solve the problem in their time-tested fashion, by renaming > everything. > Dan Covill > > > From: j...@johnweller.co.uk > > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > > Subject: RE: Windows 10 > > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:42:16 +0100 > > > > What happened to Windows 9? > > > > John Weller > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4sA6eaEph5g_vXTZgsWJBVQXS+8U2aLz=n8a5gzkpr...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
