[Red Badger]

Wonder why they skipped ‘9’?.............................

[NorthMountain]

Supposedly, they skipped "9" to avoid confusion with "95" and "98" ...

I have installed the Windows (10) Technical Preview on a couple of computers; I'm quite impressed with it as a logical evolution of Windows 7. I'll probably jump in fairly early, as I have delayed purchases on account of Windows 8 being something I don't much like.

[RansomOttawa]

Wonder why they skipped ‘9’?.............................

Someone must have made a mistake and told them the odd-numbered releases sucked.

[tje]

9 was skipped because there were concerns that some software could confuse it with Windows 95 or 98.

[rarestia]

When programming for Windows 95 and 98, most coders used shortcuts and wildcards to refer to systems in installers.

So, for instance, if an installer has specific instruction sets for Windows 95 vs. Windows 98, they would use a string syntax with a wildcard like “Windows 9*” to catch both.

Any instance of Windows 9 would be caught up in this mess and cause confusion and errors.

[dfwgator]

Wonder why they skipped ‘9’?.............................

So that legacy software won't mistake it for Windows 95.

[prisoner6]

To sync version numbers for enterprise.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

skipped 9 because 789