Quote Originally Posted by kyuven View Post
i have a slightly off-topic question...
The heck happened to Windows 9?
There are lots of Windows applications out there which do a very stupid form of version checking: They ask for the Windows version string and compare the first digit (!) they find. In this (flawed) logic, these applications would interpret "Windows 9" as "Windows 95 or Windows 98".

So, in order to keep these (broken) applications functioning, Microsoft decided to skip Windows 9 and go straight to Windows 10. BTW, there is no risk for applications written for "Windows 1", since these applications are so extremely old that they have stopped working a long time ago. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0)