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They have skipped it because 9 means ripping your money through Jedi mind tricks in every language. Just think about the prices ending with 9.
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They didn't want Windows 9 < OS X, so they made Windows 10 == OS X.
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The best reason I have seen on the web is the following:
Quote: A rather unique one was brought forth by a reddit user, claiming to be a Microsoft dev, /u/cranbourne. The user claims that calling it 'Windows 9' would result in errors with legacy code such as this:
if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9")) { /* 95 and 98 */ } else {
Looking at that, it seems rather wild. However, another user searched for this code, and found many examples of it online -- in software designed for Windows. Looking through the search, it does seem plausible. I first saw this in the subreddit /r/ProgrammerHumor, and could not make up my mind if it was not an elaborate joke. However, actually looking at some of the code in GitHub that has variations of this check, made me realize that, somehow, this is the theory that makes the most sense.
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I read something like this on the web recently but I cannot for the life of me find it again.
Does anyone here remember such a piece? Do you happen to have the URL to hand?
Massive thanks in advance to the winner.
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There are hundreds of those. Maybe this one?
http://norvig.com/21-days.html#answers[^]
Approximately infinitely long.
edit: modify "execute typical instruction" to 0.25ns. Nontypical instructions take longer.
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Well given the typical 3GHz clock rate, everything would take 3 billion times as long than 1 hertz. So using the link above, accessing 1MB of memory would take approximately 1.9 years. And that's with no special calculations on top of it.
Jeremy Falcon
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If a CPU cycle took one second, you'd have been dead of old age before your post here was displayed. In fact, you probably would have retired before the machine responded to your click on the Post message button which, in turn, would have been initialized sometime before you were born. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Coming up.......nnnnnnnow!
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(rant-ish question)
So, naturally, I get on the internet and hop on to Microsoft[^] or to the Windows section[^].
Nothing, nada, rien, zip ... 
Aren't they supposed to advertised this or do we have to search the internet to know if there will be a broadcast or some official preview/presentation somewhere ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Its definitely not going to be broadcast. There's about 50 journalists been invited to see it.
Best bet is to find out who they are and keep an eye on what they tweet/publish shortly after the event.
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Perhaps we'd benefits from them being given nice a delousing shower? 
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The problem is, you're looking for Windows 9. You should have looked for Windows 10[^] instead.
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Maybe it'll be like the new U2 album on iTunes. It'll just "show up" on your computer one day.
Jeremy Falcon
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There is no Windows 9, therefore there can be no event about it. Haven't you been paying attention? This has been discussed at great length here in the lounge. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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We all owe him an apology. He's right. They jumped straight to 10.
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Well then, my opinion of CP as the IT news source has dropped considerably. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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TTFN - Kent
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Aw, don't feel bad, my opinion dropped equally for all other news sources as well.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Maximilien wrote: Aren't they supposed to advertised this...
This seemed like a dramatically premature announcement to me. Very few details provided... I'm not sure why they even held an event.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Students in Hong Kong protesting! People in the mainland claiming they are not aware or the protest is far fetched! Hmm!
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Everyone who wants to know knows, don't worry.
The general thoughts on the protest are along the lines of "what a bunch of idiots! Whoever they get in their government will be politicians, and there's not one of those people you can trust!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's not that far-fetched.
I was listening to Radio 4 on the way home this evening and they were interviewing a young woman, on her way home from work, who knew nothing about it until a bus driver told her she would not be able to get past the protests.
Bear in mind this is a woman living in Hong Kong who had not heard of the protests until a bus driver informed her of the road blocks.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 30-Sep-14 14:02pm.
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I strolled straight into the middle of riots that had been going on for almost a whole day, a few years back.
In Birmingham.
Not everyone sits in front of the TV watching the news, all day.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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