[rarestia]

They didn't use Windows 9, because poor coding in older applications could catch Windows 95 & Windows 98 instead of the intended OS.

For instance, if someone wrote a script to search for Windows 9 machines:

get-adcomputer -filter {osname -like "Windows 9*"}

They'll wind up getting Windows 95 and 98 machines as well. Microsoft didn't want this, so they skipped to 10.

[Dr. Sivana]

They didn't use Windows 9, because poor coding in older applications could catch Windows 95 & Windows 98 instead of the intended OS.

Of course, this does nothing about the 30 year old applications looking for Windows 1.x!

[GeronL]

Windows 09 wouldn’t work?

[Secret Agent Man]

well then windows 10 could reallybe in troubleif it catches windows 1.0 bugs. we’ll be back to DOS and the 640k limit. and being asked to insert our 5 1/4 floppy #7...