[AccessD] FW: Why they called it Windows 10, and not Windows 9...

And then we have MDB to ACCDB which went from  DAO.DBEngine.40 to 
DAO.DBEngine.120

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Stuart

On 2 Oct 2014 at 1:59, Darryl Collins wrote:

> Hi Hans,
> 
> With respect, I think you have misunderstood the implications here. 
> It would be a huge issue and best avoided.
> 
> I guess they could have called it Windows 9 to the public and
> something different under the hood, but that just gets confusing.  It
> is bad enough that Office 2010 is known as Office14 in the VBE
> properties.
> 
> Cheers
> Darryl
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Hans-Christian Andersen Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2014 11:40 AM To:
> Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re:
> [AccessD] FW: Why they called it Windows 10, and not Windows 9...
> 
> Don't see why. A name is just a name. They could call it whatever thy
> like internally.
> 
> - Hans
> 
> 
> > On Oct 1, 2014, at 6:29 PM, Darryl Collins
> > <darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au> wrote:
> > 
> > Good Theory and likely a real issue as well...
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky
> > Smolin Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2014 11:22 AM To: 'Off Topic';
> > 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject:
> > [AccessD] FW: Why they called it Windows 10, and not Windows 9...
> > 
> > another theory...
> > 
> >  _____
> > 
> > From: Noah Sutton-Smolin [mailto:noahsutsmo at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 6:17 PM
> > To: Rocky Smolin
> > Subject: Why they called it Windows 10, and not Windows 9...
> > 
> > 
> > Since Windows 2000, people have used the condition:
> > 
> >    if(os.version.startswith("Windows 9") || 
> > os.version.startswith("Windows
> > ME"))
> > 
> > or some such equivalent to identify Windows 95, Windows 98, and
> > Windows ME.
> > 
> > It's in thousands of lines of code, all over the place. Calling it
> > "Windows 9" would break too many applications for Microsoft to
> > bother.
> > 
> > https://searchcode.com/?q=startswith%28%22windows%5C+9%22%29
> > 
> > 
> > ++Noah Sutton-Smolin
> > Android Developer, EcoATM
> > E: noahsutsmo at gmail.com
> > H: 858-259-2592
> > C: 858-342-8926
> > 
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