[TBP]

At least in Windows 7, you can simulate XP with XP Mode. but that won’t work with 10. (And BTW, what happened to 8 and 9?)

[dayglored]

> (And BTW, what happened to 8 and 9?)

Windows 8 was just a horrible mistake. It was a good NT operating system "under the hood", but the new smartphone-inspired user interface ("Metro") was beyond the pale on a desktop. It was denounced and rejected almost universally.

Windows 8.1 addressed a few of the most egregious flaws in Win8, but didn't begin to fix the overall problem.

Windows 9 never happened. They went directly from 8.1 to 10.

There is precedent for this. When Windows NT first came out, it was version 3.1 to match the then-current MSDOS-based Windows 3.1. There was never a Windows NT 1 or Windows NT 2.

MSDOS-based Windows:

• Windows 1.01, 1.02, 1.03, 1.04
• Windows 2.03, 2.10, 2.11
• Windows 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 3.2
• Windows 4.0 aka. Windows 95
• Windows 4.1 aka. Windows 98, 98SE
• Windows 4.9 aka. Windows ME

NT-based Windows:

• Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51
• Windows NT 4.0
• Windows NT 5.0 aka. Windows 2000
• Windows NT 5.1 aka. Windows XP
• Windows NT 6.0 aka. Windows Vista
• Windows NT 6.1 aka. Windows 7
• Windows NT 6.2 aka. Windows 8
• Windows NT 6.3 aka. Windows 8.1
• Windows NT 10.0 aka. Windows 10

Got that? :-)

[Seruzawa]

8 and 9 are somewhere out there with Vista.