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Microsoft is not good enough for Windows 9, jumps straight to Windows 10 instead

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Subject: Re: Microsoft is not good enough for Windows 9, jumps straight to Windows 10 instead

Post Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 20:01

OOPS THAT WAS AN ARTICLE FROM 2013


Anyway this is all you need https://twitter.com/Windows/status/516997877487665152

Quote from the event wrote:"I have a Windows desktop, down here I have a taskbar. When I click the Start icon I get the Start Menu."
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Subject: Re: Microsoft is not good enough for Windows 9, jumps straight to Windows 10 instead

Post Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 21:50

Even if it wasn't an April Fools joke, that would've been the first time they skipped a whole operating system. Reminds me of NVIDIA...
Trying to get back into the swing of things.

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Subject: Re: Microsoft is not good enough for Windows 9, jumps straight to Windows 10 instead

Post Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 23:05

Jigoku wrote:Even if it wasn't an April Fools joke, that would've been the first time they skipped a whole operating system. Reminds me of NVIDIA...

You probably mean : that wouldn't have been the first time.
Anyway, there is a difference in the name of the Windows product and the Release Version of that product. Microsoft has skipped numbers in the naming, but not in the release version.
(version numbering is from memory, I tested all of these except for Windows 2, the ones I mainly used are boldfaced)
windows 2.0 = release version 2.0
windows 3.0 = release version 3.00
windows 3.11 = release version 3.11

But then things become complicated

Windows NT 3.1 = release version NT 3.1
Windows NT 3.5 = release version NT 3.5

then comes Windows 95 = release version 4.00 (with OSR2 and so on continuing with release version 4.00)
but Windows NT 4.0 = release version NT 4.0

Windows 98 = release version 4.10
There never was a Windows 5
Windows 2000 = release version NT 5
and Windows ME is suddenly release version 4.90 (BTW that was an unbelievably bad OS considering W2K was there)

Windows XP = release version NT 5.1 (basically a slightly improved W2K)

And after that came
Windows Vista = release version NT 6.0
There never was a Windows 6
Windows 7 = release version NT 6.1
Windows 8 = release version NT 6.2
Windows 8.1 = release version NT 6.3

I guess Windows 10 will be release version 6.4 (this unified OS which 7 should have been and 8 isn't yet probably won't be such a drastic change as to warrant a jump to 7 just yet).

I just which Microsoft would have included an 16 bit emulator so that I could run my 16 bit applications from with 8.1 64bit.

Actually, I had to lookup the release versions numbering, memory fails me. (and there were a couple of smaller in between releases which I haven't mentioned.

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Subject: Re: Microsoft is not good enough for Windows 9, jumps straight to Windows 10 instead

Post Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 23:45

Vine showing the start menu
https://vine.co/v/OmAeMXhQ9Xx
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Subject: Re: Microsoft is not good enough for Windows 9, jumps straight to Windows 10 instead

Post Posted: 09 Oct 2014, 06:28

From a MS dev on Reddit:

if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9"))
{ /* 95 and 98 */
} else {

So, no Windows 9.


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