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RE: Microsoft unveils Windows 10 system with Start Menu - Uzinero - 10-03-2014
I read an interesting theory on this earlier, that seems to make sense for why they really named it 10:
CNET speaks about it here: http://www.cnet.com/news/is-this-why-microsoft-named-it-windows-10/
But if you just want to see the reddit post they refer too without checking their article, a reddit user who apparently works for microsoft said this:
Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form
if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9")) { /* 95 and 98 */ } else {
and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that.