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Plausable Explanation for Leap from Windows 8 to Windows 10

posted by martyb on Friday October 03 2014, @01:42AM   Printer-friendly
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.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Friday October 03 2014, @06:19PM

    by frojack (1554) on Friday October 03 2014, @06:19PM (#101475) Journal

    You are correct. Win 8 has user select-able 16 bit support but only on a 32bit Windows 8 installation (regardless of hardware, which is why 32bit windows installations on 64bit machines are still rather common).

    You can of course run those 16bit apps in a 32bit virtual machine installed on a 64bit platform.

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