Why Microsoft skipped windows 9 ?
"because some old programs may mistake it for windows 95 or 98"
(not mine)

You know, Microsoft just seem like such a incompetent company.

@theuser because some old software fucked up?

@theuser Actually the story I heard was that Java was just one of the non-Microsoft codebases that used that particular shortcut.

No independent confirmation, but I think it's at least plausible.

@jbhelfrich And they know that if they did push a super simple update to fix this, people would ignore it then complain that it's not compatible with Windows 9

Why a version check is a string comparison in the first place? That's just idiotic. We have version numbers for a reason.

That's a bullshit myth. Windows exposes internal version numbers in it's APIs that do not resemble the marketing names at all.

@daniel-kun That seems dumb to me as well, but this is the explaination given by someone who claims to be a Microsoft dev https://reddit.com/r/technology/...
And it seems to be true https://searchcode.com//...
I think this is the funniest example:
else if (osName.startsWith("Windows")) {
if (osName.indexOf("9") != -1) {
jvm = WINDOWS_9x;
}
lol