Well if you really want to get technical, they didn't skip just 9, they skipped "7" and "8" too. I think they decided to call this one 10 so we could all understand that they wanna make this one a big deal. And it is!
Also be aware that if you have a Windows 7 computer or 8.X and decide to upgrade, you are going to miss out on some (trivial) features that people who get a vanilla Win10 computer will have. I would do more research when it's actually released to confirm everything before switching. But I think the biggest one that struck me was that you might not being able to turn off those smurfing automatic updates* if you upgraded your computer, versus buying it brand new.
My use of smurfing here is attached to the word "automatic," and not the updates themselves.
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This might be true.Originally Posted by DMKA
There's a shady claim by alledged Microsoft employees, wink wink (Microsoft has not officially confirmed it) that they skipped it for coding reasons, because of how most versions of windows were programmed to check for previous versions of windows starting with "9", such as 95 and 98.
They actually have been following a coherent numbering system. As a run of the mill consumer though, you just don't know about it!Or maybe Microsoft just felt "Windows 10" would be more marketable? Who knows. It's not like they've been following any coherent numbering system since 3.1. Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1. Yeah. Not much rhyme or reason to it.
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