The Really Real Real Reason for the Windows 10 name

[M dHatter]

they should name it windows me 10 :-D

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[DJ van Wyk]

Let's all switch to base-8 math. Screw you -9-!!!

My plan is to live forever ... so far so good

[Lost User]

How can they be so sure that all ...

if(version.StartsWith("Windows 1")) // Windows 1.0/1.1/etc.

... code is already out of production ;)

[Paul R Benson]

Since we've already used the digit '8' surely you mean base 9? :confused:

[DJ van Wyk]

In base 8 there is no number 9, same as there is no number 2 in binary.

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[Super Lloyd]

he probably means base 10, as in 8 + 1! ;P

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[irneb]

Just wondering ... seeing all the hype about it being SSSSOOOO "wonderful" ... did they think of it i.t.o. "It's a totally 'new' windows - like in Windows 2.0"? ... And then realizing: "That's already been used" ... And then some "brilliant" meeting participant "remembering" that "computers count in 1s & 0s" ... I can just imagine the sort of meeting (having had several of those myself - ending in me just hanging my head)

[Paul R Benson]

In base 8 there is also no 8. Hence, since we've already had Windows 8 base 8 doesn't work.

[Super Lloyd]

That's a damn good question you just raised here! :-D :laugh:

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[DJ van Wyk]

The topic discusses the number 9. In my view the number 8 is irrelevant in this context. But we can start using base-9 math if it will make you feel better.

My plan is to live forever ... so far so good

[RachelMartin]

I think a lot of people are misreading it as "Windows Ten". It's clearly "Windows Two".

[RachelMartin]

I thought that myself, but then I realized that Intel processors are little-endian. Which would make it "Windows One", surely?

[zpinklb]

It's a binary number and part of the new low-numbering scheme. XBOX ONE, Windows TWO. Makes sense. ;-)

[irneb]

Exactly! That's one of the reasons I'd have just hung my head in that meeting ... not worth shaking!

[irneb]

So then you mean we can expect a 360 / 365 in the future (or should that be past)?

[zpinklb]

Will there be a future?

[irneb]

Good point! No counting of any chickens allowed (especially not with Microsoft's invention of a new numbering system)!

[zpinklb]

M$ may find themselves in court again if they claim to have invented binary numbers! I'm pretty sure that claim has already been made by Apple and Samsung! ;-)

[Member 8132010]

Windows 10 ie- Starts with a 1 (positive) and ends with a 0 (non-positive)- if it really follows Win8 :laugh: Hope it is more like a TEN- sportslike lucky number for all ;)

[User 10646402]

My kids told me that MS had to use 10, because 7 8 9. :rolleyes: