Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11::Time to rethink Windows 10 support cycle then?

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Genuinely I’ll give Michaelsoft credit on skipping 9, they did that to avoid SEO poisoning windows 9x variants.

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What? if that was a good enough reason to skip 9 they could have called it something else. What happened was that marketing said 10 is cooler.

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The did name it something else. They named it 10. A lot of programs had checks for windows version looking for 9 for 95/98 which would cause issues without updates. So it’s better to avoid it altogether.

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That’s an urban myth. Programs check for the internal windows version major and minor number which doesn’t resemble the official name in any way. The version for Windows 9x was version 4 and the version for Windows 9 (if it existed) would have been 7.

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