(January 21, 2015 at 5:20 pm)Tonus Wrote:(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.
I'm not convinced. They could easily refer to the OS as "Windows ix" in the underlying code, if this were the only reason for the change.
But then I'm fairly certain the MS motto is "be evil."
