Question: Why No Windows 9?
Contents When the Company Announced Windows 7, There Was Actually a Similar Amount of Disbelief; After a Series of Named Versions of Windows, It Seemed Odd to...
When the company announced Windows 7, there was actually a similar amount of disbelief; after a series of named versions of Windows, it seemed odd to switch back to numbers.
There’s also the fact that the name of each Windows release doesn’t actually match the real version number.
Why did they skip Windows 9?
Microsoft said it skipped Windows 9 because it wanted to show how big of shift Windows 10 is from past versions and the way the company does things. At Microsoft’s Build conference last week, Microsoft employees were wearing blue shirts that had the Windows logo filled with binary code.
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What ever happened to Windows 9?
Microsoft simply decided not to name their Windows 8 successor as Windows 9 but went with Windows 10 instead, which was originally code-named Threshold. You don’t have to download something called “Windows 9” and, technically, you don’t even really need to understand why Microsoft skipped it.
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