Yes and I also lose some confidence when ever I see a series of things numbered in a rational way and then skips numbers. Asian or not I don’t want to support a company that can not count. And its not like it is super common, Sony is a Japanese company yet the Playstation 4 existed for example.
And its not just international things ether, I don’t like when buildings skip floors ether. Let me live on the 13th floor, it is a number between 12 and 14 and I have a better opinion of the builder that can count more then I would have issues with superstition.
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.
Not even the issues with software just checking for ‘windows 9’. But, people are…umm…not smart. And there would a whole bunch of people thinking windows 95 or 98 was the same thing as windows 9. Windows 8.1 was 9. MS just didn’t call it 9 to avoid pebkac issues. With that said, fuck MS.
TeNppa@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Nobody does remember 9 since they went from 8.1 (which is different from 8) to 10.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 week 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 1 week 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”.
TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Also because many software did version checks by doing a substring search “Windows 9”.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Yes and I also lose some confidence when ever I see a series of things numbered in a rational way and then skips numbers. Asian or not I don’t want to support a company that can not count. And its not like it is super common, Sony is a Japanese company yet the Playstation 4 existed for example.
And its not just international things ether, I don’t like when buildings skip floors ether. Let me live on the 13th floor, it is a number between 12 and 14 and I have a better opinion of the builder that can count more then I would have issues with superstition.
ryper@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Valve can’t even count to 3 and it makes plenty of money.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Look, they can count to two and that is good enough for software. But if portal 4 comes out next I am going to lose it.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 6 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.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Not even the issues with software just checking for ‘windows 9’. But, people are…umm…not smart. And there would a whole bunch of people thinking windows 95 or 98 was the same thing as windows 9. Windows 8.1 was 9. MS just didn’t call it 9 to avoid pebkac issues. With that said, fuck MS.