let’s face it, the 10 was chosen for marketing, even if there’s a technical reason it can’t be “windows 9”
it could’ve just been windows nine. or any other word that isn’t a number
Edit: i don’t think this theory is even true. the only source is some guy on reddit whose comments are now deleted. besides, windows 95 is not internally called windows 95, it’s windows 4.00.950
let’s face it, the 10 was chosen for marketing, even if there’s a technical reason it can’t be “windows 9”
it could’ve just been windows nine. or any other word that isn’t a number
Edit: i don’t think this theory is even true. the only source is some guy on reddit whose comments are now deleted. besides, windows 95 is not internally called windows 95, it’s windows 4.00.950
Say whatever you want about Microsoft, but they don’t mess around with backwards compatibility.
It’s easy to be backwards compatible when you’re backwards in general.
Well, better to be backwards with backwards compatibility than to just be backwards.
looks at Apple
They probably search for windows n(t) somewhere too ;)
But “nine” is a word that is a number