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Plausable Explanation for Leap from Windows 8 to Windows 10

posted by martyb on Friday October 03 2014, @01:42AM   
from the just-because-the-code-once-worked-does-not-mean-it-was-right dept.

crutchy writes:

Not sure of the authenticity of the MS dev claim, but this makes sense.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x

Reddit user "cranbourne" says:

Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form:

if (version.StartsWith("Windows 9")) {
    /* 95 and 98 */
    } else {
}

and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that.

• Re:Ummmm... grammer natzi? (Score: 1, Troll) by c0lo on Friday October 03 2014, @03:55AM

  by c0lo (156) on Friday October 03 2014, @03:55AM (#101261) Journal

  You were wrong. Just fess up to it. That's a lot more respectable than this fake "whoosh" nonsense.

  I never imagined that this [wikia.com] (see what I did here?) would work.
  Even letting aside it is a nice spring day with an easy breeze and a balmy 18 degrees and is Thanks-God-is-Friday, this thread really-really made my day.

  --

  Hang on, it's lunch break, let's try something else. I argue that a phasing like

  he (a Joe Nobody, you never heard of him, so his identity doesn't matter) says
  something-very-long, which-will-make-you-simply-forget-somebody-is-saying-something.
  If-possible, spread-what-he-says on-multiple-lines, just-to-make-it-pretty-damned-sure-you-forget somebody-was-saying-that
  and that this [sic]is the cause for-which-you-are-likely-to-lose (or-is-it-loose?) meaning

  is a very bad form of phrasing that thing that (or is it which better?) you actually wanted to say.
  I argue it is as bad as overusing this and that or using if (version.StartsWith("Windows 9")) as a test for Win95/Win98.

  So what do you think of that, Alte Kameraden?

  --
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford

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