So was Vista. Here's what I've found out using a simple web search. There are a few possible reasons why they didn't go with Windows 9 as the name. One possible reason is that 9 is considered bad luck in Japan. Another suggested reason is that there is some legacy code that looks for Windows 9 to find out the version, and these old programs or anything that uses that old code will think it's a Windows 95/98 version. Microsoft's reason is that it's that big of a change in paradigm that they went to the more auspicious 10. Some folks also think it might be that they're planning on sticking with the version name for a while, like Apple did with OSX, so they'll stick around using different versions of Windows 10 for a while. The reality is that it's Windows 6.4, based on the Vista 6x version, so they could call it Windows 1,549,683 and it would have as much meaning as anything else. It's just a marketing name. Of course, with the exception of the 4.x iteration for Windows NT 4.0, even numbered versions of windows haven't been that wonderful. (Remember, Vista starts with VI, the Roman numeral for 6) So they could be shooting themselves in the foot by jumping to another even number.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ward > Dudley via Jfw > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 6:08 PM > To: The Jaws for Windows support list. > Cc: Ward Dudley > Subject: Re: Just curious -- what happened to Windows 9? > > 8 was almost as bad as ME > > On 7/23/2015 3:01 PM, Maria Campbell via Jfw wrote: > > Windows 8 happened to Windows 9. It was so bad MS decided to skip 9 > > altogether. > > > > > > On 7/23/2015 3:29 PM, Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D. via Jfw wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm still on Windows 7. I hear a lot of talk about Windows 8.1 and > >> Windows 10. Was Windows 9 a bust or something? > >> > >> Thanks, Keith > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Jfw mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
