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Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)

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Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11::Time to rethink Windows 10 support cycle then?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Microsoft decided to skip Windows 9 because, after doing a lot of research, they found that a lot of commonly used legacy software had implemented compatibility hacks which involved checking for "Windows 9" to detect when the software was running under either Windows 95 or Windows 98.

Instead of breaking a lot of software or requiring a lot of updates (some of which could even be from vendors who were no longer in business) they decided to work around the problem by just skipping straight to 10.

Edit: My mistake, I responded to the wrong comment. But I'm gonna leave it here because I already typed it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Version check on Windows 9x was done by comparing with the number 4, which was the internal version number, not with the marketing name.