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

But windows is already called something different internally, since windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 & 8 are flavours of Windows NT and there's all have a Windows NT version that deviates from the marketed name. ie. windows 8.1 is actually windows nt 6.3.

Am I missing something here?

- Hans


> On Oct 1, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Darryl Collins <darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au> 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
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