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

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Wed Oct 1 20:39:40 CDT 2014


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 
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