OT...Mystery finally solved

[Soonersincefitty]

If you might have wondered why Microsoft skipped over OS9, here's the deal.

Apparently 9 is an unlucky number in Japan. With windows presence there...well.

So much for the rumor that 7 ate 9.

 

[roygbell]

I don't care about Windows 8 as each version is just shuffling the deck chairs on a boat.

However, I will comment on your thought about guns.

Any one who wants to take my S&W 460 away from me can have it if they survive the impact of a 400 grain flat nose, hard cast bullet.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Well, quite the diversion from the OP but, right on.

I'd kill to retain possession of that particular firearm as well.

Fair trade.

 

[JConXtsy]

I don't care about Windows 8 as each version is just shuffling the deck chairs on a boat.

That's because these most of these aren't new kernels. They're just revisions of a previous version, and their numbers are just names, not version numbers.

Windows Vista = Windows 6.1
Windows 7 = Windows 6.2
Windows 8 = Windows 6.3
Windows 10 = Windows 6.4

They are all based on the Vista kernel.

Apparently 9 is an unlucky number in Japan. With windows presence there...well.

I heard on Reddit that it's because too many 3rd party softwares had "smart" code to read "Windows 9" as "Windows 95" or "Windows 98" to account for syntax errors. By skipping 9, they prevent some software from essentially crashing itself when it tries to run invalid 95/98 code on a new system.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Dang, Billy Gates...net worth...65 billion?

That's too bad.

 

[Section22Sooner]

That's because these most of these aren't new kernels. They're just revisions of a previous version, and their numbers are just names, not version numbers.

Windows Vista = Windows 6.1
Windows 7 = Windows 6.2
Windows 8 = Windows 6.3
Windows 10 = Windows 6.4

They are all based on the Vista kernel.



I heard on Reddit that it's because too many 3rd party softwares had "smart" code to read "Windows 9" as "Windows 95" or "Windows 98" to account for syntax errors. By skipping 9, they prevent some software from essentially crashing itself when it tries to run invalid 95/98 code on a new system.

Interesting. Now watch. It'll crash anyway as code will see "Windows 1"

 

[iasooner1]

Of course the OP conjures up this "name that tune" snippet"

If the mountains fell in the sea
let it be, it ain't me
Alright, 'cos I got my own world to look through
And I ain't gonna copy you

Go everyone!

 

[iasooner1]

fitty fitty fitty; I figured you'd be all over this Hendrix classic!

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Oh man, I would have jumped ass ugly on that.

Clearly I should open threads I initiate more often.

Now I'll have to play it.

 

[iasooner1]

See you soon my friend...

 

[Debou]

Dang, Billy Gates...net worth...65 billion?

That's too bad.

Maybe we could ask him to fund the stadium renovations.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Actually, that was Gates net worth last year.

He's up to a gaudy, disgusting 86 billion now.
Poor bastid.