Su that’s why they never released 9 - it was too perfect and they wouldn’t make money in the future
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dgmib@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I’m starting to think Microsoft gives windows a new version number every time they want to make a bunch of big breaking changes, just so the bad reputation can die when they rebrand it as Windows 12 (or whatever stupid naming scheme their marketing team comes with next.)
Lumisal@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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[deleted]TeNppa@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
Nobody does remember 9 since they went from 8.1 (which is different from 8) to 10.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 6 days ago
How people can give money to a software maker that has shown they can not count to 10 always blows me away.
NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Lots of international manufacturers skip model numbers 4 and 9 because of Asian superstitions. Silly, yes, but they affect sales and even birth rates.
At least in Japanese, 4 sounds like “death” and 9 sounds like “suffering”.
ryper@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Valve can’t even count to 3 and it makes plenty of money.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Microsoft deserves all the crap they’ve ordered, but skipping 9 on versioning was pretty smart move on their part. There’s still a ton of older software which just checks if windows version matches ‘windows 9’ to include both 95 and 98 (and all their variants). If 8.1 was released as 9 it would’ve broken a lot of compatibility which at least then was a big deal for Windows. And it still is, but now it seems that they’ll happily break everything from their most known product.
Strakh@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if they just started calling it Copilot at some point. I could see them renaming their “agents” after big feature updates, much like we do with hurricanes which would be fitting given their history of breaking things with each KB.
I’ve been a Windows user my whole life. I support 5000+ Windows devices along with the whole Microsoft enterprise suite. It’s been bad with them, but there have usually been patches at some point or at least community discovered workarounds. However, Microsoft’s reckless abandon into AI legitimately worries me.
I’m finally making the switch to Linux for personal devices.