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Sorry, I don't remember Win 99, I do remember 96. I also remember Win 2000. So at one point their release names were associated to the year of release.
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he probably means base 10, as in 8 + 1!
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Wait until Visual Studio (15)9 comes out, all octal and hex references will have been removed to enforce the MS paradigm.
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So, when there will be base-9 notation support?
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Gosh, I hadn't thought it through that far. I'm sure it will be included in the VS (15)9 release - but perhaps someone with more free time than sense could bang a VS toolkit add-in together so we could get some early practice....
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9 is, amusingly, a 4 anyway.
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I thought it was because they wanted to avoid the possibility of Apple commercials with a frantic Hitler
yelling "Windows!!! Nein!!! Nein!!! Nein!!!"
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Now that[^]... is the real reason!
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I think the interwebs may have figured out the true reason, yes. Seems all to believable (and those code search results make it more believable).
TTFN - Kent
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How can they be so sure that all ...
if(version.StartsWith("Windows 1"))
... code is already out of production
modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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That's a damn good question you just raised here!
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The languages that included the .StartsWith method didn't exist until later. Also, the installers for those programs are all 16 bit installers and won't run on current versions of Windows.
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they should name it windows me 10
.'\ /`.
.'.-.`-'.-.`.
..._: .-. .-. :_...
.' '-.(o ) (o ).-' `.
: _ _ _`~(_)~`_ _ _ :
: /: ' .-=_ _=-. ` ;\ :
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`. `-:_| | |_:-' .'
`-._ ```` _.-'
``-------'/xml>
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Just wondering ... seeing all the hype about it being SSSSOOOO "wonderful" ... did they think of it i.t.o. "It's a totally 'new' windows - like in Windows 2.0"?
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And then realizing: "That's already been used"
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And then some "brilliant" meeting participant "remembering" that "computers count in 1s & 0s" ... I can just imagine the sort of meeting (having had several of those myself - ending in me just hanging my head)
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I thought that myself, but then I realized that Intel processors are little-endian. Which would make it "Windows One", surely?
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Exactly! That's one of the reasons I'd have just hung my head in that meeting ... not worth shaking!
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I think a lot of people are misreading it as "Windows Ten". It's clearly "Windows Two".
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It's a binary number and part of the new low-numbering scheme. XBOX ONE, Windows TWO. Makes sense.
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So then you mean we can expect a 360 / 365 in the future (or should that be past)?
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Good point! No counting of any chickens allowed (especially not with Microsoft's invention of a new numbering system)!
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M$ may find themselves in court again if they claim to have invented binary numbers! I'm pretty sure that claim has already been made by Apple and Samsung!
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Windows 10 ie- Starts with a 1 (positive) and ends with a 0 (non-positive)- if it really follows Win8
Hope it is more like a TEN- sportslike lucky number for all
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My kids told me that MS had to use 10, because 7 8 9.
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