Secret t-shirt message explains why Microsoft skipped Windows 9
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We may finally have an answer to a question that's bugged us since Microsoft first announced Windows 10: What the heck happened to Windows 9?
Someone get their coat
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We may finally have an answer to a question that's bugged us since Microsoft first announced Windows 10: What the heck happened to Windows 9?
Someone get their coat
I thought we'd already answered that one last year?
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x[^]
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.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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I thought we'd already answered that one last year?
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x[^]
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.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Yup. Read the story. It's a bad, bad joke answer.
TTFN - Kent
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We may finally have an answer to a question that's bugged us since Microsoft first announced Windows 10: What the heck happened to Windows 9?
Someone get their coat
You mean to say the illuminati weren't involved? :wtf:
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