Quick Answer: Why Did Windows Skip 9?
Contents 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...
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.
Why did iPhone and Windows skip 9?
The theories swirling around the iPhone X and the lack of an iPhone 9 range from grim to hilarious, but perhaps the easiest to understand the reason for the skip in this particular instance is that the tech is being announced on the tenth anniversary of the iPhone’s original release date.
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Why did the iPhone skip 9?
But often it’s for the same reason that Apple skipped 9 – because the company wants to signify a new beginning for a product, just as Microsoft did when it skipped Windows 9 and went straight to Windows 10 from Windows 8 (OK, it was Windows 8.1 for the pedants out there).
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