Time to rethink Windows 10 support cycle then?

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  • Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Genuinely I’ll give Michaelsoft credit on skipping 9, they did that to avoid SEO poisoning windows 9x variants.

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      What? if that was a good enough reason to skip 9 they could have called it something else. What happened was that marketing said 10 is cooler.

      • rooster_butt@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        The did name it something else. They named it 10. A lot of programs had checks for windows version looking for 9 for 95/98 which would cause issues without updates. So it’s better to avoid it altogether.

        • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          That’s an urban myth. Programs check for the internal windows version major and minor number which doesn’t resemble the official name in any way. The version for Windows 9x was version 4 and the version for Windows 9 (if it existed) would have been 7.