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[Michael]

In case anyone was curious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JphpLkmimVo

[Rayblon]

I find it amusing that they avoided releasing ur nder windows 9.

[pspeed]

I find it amusing that they avoided releasing ur nder windows 9.

Turns out that the reason is likely because of all of the "Is this Windows 95 or Windows 98?" code that looks for Win9*

...I liked to believe it was a conspiracy to avoid break the "odd numbered versions are the good ones" cycle.

[GaraQuor]

or it's because : " ho shit Apple are already at os X (X for 10) so we will release windows 10 to catch them " ^^

[pspeed]

or it's because : " ho shit Apple are already at os X (X for 10) so we will release windows 10 to catch them " ^^

Nope... heheh... it's pretty much just this: "code that looks for Win9*"

All of those apps that don't run if the platform is Win9* would fail to work on Windows 9.

Always though the years as versions thing was super dumb... funnier still when they barely released them in the year they were named for.  I think Windows 95 came out early 96 and Windows 2000 was like December 2000 or something.