• tool@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Imagine they skip 12 and call it 13 like they did with W10

    With as little sense as Microsoft makes most of the time, that decision actually does make sense. A lot of programs and scripts were lazy about checking the Windows version and just checked for the presence of a ‘9’ in the version string to determine if they were running on Windows 95/98.

    A bunch of shit would have broken if they had released Windows 10 as Windows 9, which is what it should have been semantically.

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      1 year ago

      That’s not how it works. It started as a joke, until someone took it at face value and started spreading it as a fact. Like the flat earth

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          Can I ask you for a source then? If it’s true I’ll re-evaluate my life choices

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              Well TIL. I thought nobody in their sane mind would actually check the OS version like that, but reality proved me wrong