(January 21, 2015 at 4:55 pm)Davka Wrote: I like the way they simply skipped over Win9. Like they're trying to get some distance between Microsoft and Win8.
The actual reason appears to be related to Windows 95/98. Many old applications would check for the Windows version by reading "Windows 9" and not bothering to check the next digit. That could present some very... interesting issues if anyone attempted to install one of those old programs on Windows 9, so MS decided that as unlikely as it was, it was better to just avoid it altogether.
It's not often that MS sees a potential train wreck coming, so that was a good idea. They may have other train wrecks in store, but no one will worry that your WordPerfect 3 install disks will cause Windows to have a seizure.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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