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Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak (www.neowin.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (5 children)

didn't they say windows 10 was going to be the last version of windows? hence why they jumped to the number 10 as it's nice and round.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought they jumped to it because ancient, poorly made software would check for Windows 9* to cover 95 and 98, and could now potentially catch windows 9 as well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Java was one of those poorly made software, but it seems stupid to program a check like that. What's the chance that after Windows 98, Microsoft would release Windows 99? The check should just used the version number. If Windows 95 was 4.0 and Windows 98 was 4.1 should have done the check as "4.*" as a future compatible version could have been 4.2 (win me was 4.9) while one with so many changes that it might need a newer version of the app could have been 5.0 (windows 2000)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I said it was going to by my last version of Windows. Coincidence?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yes, but they've always been liars.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

No the company itself never said it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure they used 10 because 7 was build 7xxx, 8 was build 8xxx, and 8.1 was 9xxx, making at least the initial versions of 10 10xxx.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

IMHO that's a coincidence of the build counter. 7 was 7600, 8 was 9200 and 8.1 was 9600. Then they changed how often they redo a build, so now it's over 23000

But at the time of win 10 release I saw on Twitter a screenshot of a decompiled ancient Java setup that did a check "if Windows 9*"...

Can't find that again