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TIL Microsoft jumped straight from Windows 8 to 10 because plenty of legacy software were checking for Windows 95 and Windows 98 environments using some equivalent of os.startswith("windows 9"), so naming the OS "Windows 9" would have broken backward compatibility

TIL Microsoft jumped straight from Windows 8 to 10 because plenty of legacy software were checking for Windows 95 and Windows 98 environments using some equivalent of os.startswith("windows 9"), so naming the OS "Windows 9" would have broken backward compatibility

https://www.pcworld.com/article/435584/why-windows-10-isnt-named-9-windows-95-legacy-code.html

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Fascinating! It's amazing how legacy software can dictate naming conventions in such a significant way. This kind of backward compatibility consideration is crucial in large ecosystems like Windows.