[SML] Windows 10

[Phil Haney]

Friend of mine, who is a beta tester for MS, says they skipped Windows 9 because there is software in existence that will default to Windows 95/98 mode in Windows 9.

That software?

Microsoft Office...

-Phil

"Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus" - Never tickle a sleeping dragon.

> On Jul 28, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Alf Sauve' via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> 
> Sounds like a Y2K type problem.  Short cuts can equal short sightedness.
> 
> I remember Win 1 and Harvard Graphics!  What a revolution at the time.
> 
> I also remember that Apple appropriated the desktop (MAC) paradigm from another company and ended up in a lawsuit which was settle out of court.
> 
> 
> 
>> On 7/28/2015 4:23 PM, Mick Alderson via Stagecraft wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Stephen Litterst via Stagecraft
>> <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>>> Why, then is Microslush skipping 9 and going straight to 10?  Anyone?
>> 
>> Microsoft claims it's such an improvement that it deserved to jump over
>> one digit, but a more likely theory I read is that there is a lot of
>> legacy Javascript out there that uses "Win 9" as a shortcut for Windows
>> 95. By jumping to Win 10 they avoid having all those website misidentify
>> the new OS. Win 1 was VERY long ago. :-)
> 
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