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I believe the reason why they skipped 9 is because it could be confusing.
You have Windows 8 and 8.1.
However, really old versions of Windows are called 9x, so we have 95, 98, 98SE, whatever
Now of course we're all smart people and we know that 9.1 or 9.5 is different than 95, but I'm pretty sure that's the reasoning.
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Screw the people who are just pooping out new technology (often times barely different and simply under a new name), didn't Windows 8 come out just last year? Or even earlier this year?
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It was planned as 8.2 at first, but thy wanted to distance themselves from Windows 8 as much as possible.
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There hasn't been ever much logic in MS product naming.
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Windows Vista was generally refered as "windows bosta" around here. It translates as "windows shit".
So yeah, they didn't even managed to sound appealing to the people that speak the language they were borrowing the word from. Why I hoped they getting rid of names in favor of nunbers would fix they ilogic marketing department.
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I think Kwidin got a valid explanation here. Since some older software look for your Windows version string starting with "Windows 9" to detect Windows 9x, those programs would have had issues with Windows 9. They're probably avoiding a whole lot of problems by skipping the version number.
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They've been pretty consistent with their release timetable:
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Money money money. Today world is crazy because all the corporations must have a growth. Every new damn CEO or other stupid director must show how good he is and they are pooping new games, movies and music. There is no art in this anymore. Marketing and money are only important things today.
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win 8... now win 10 did we skipped something?... Now I get the picture why valve can't count to 3. (Gabe works for Microsoft before)
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