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What happened to windows 9?

Anonymous
2015-05-31T17:28:28+00:00
  1. All other versions of window increase with their chronological version number like win 7, 8 but what happened to 9? Or are there going to be random releases of other future windows version?
  2. Can Cortana work without internet connection if not why don't the engineers make cortana have a preinstalled offline system.
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  1. Anonymous
    2015-05-31T18:29:32+00:00

    MS in their infinite wisdom skipped 9.  Win 10 may be the last numerical version as they are going to change the way they upgrade so it is being called the last windows.

    Cortland searches locally and online at the same time so if offline it is extremely limited.  adding the "preinstalled offline system" would take resources, space, and for the limited number of people that would use it IMHO Microsoft decided not to.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-05-31T19:06:55+00:00

    On Sun, 31 May 2015 17:28:30 +0000, CephasChapa wrote:

    1. All other versions of window increase with their chronological version number like win 7, 8

    No, that's not correct. Some versions have numbers and other have
    alphabetical names (like Me, XP and Vista)

    but what happened to 9?

    For whatever reason, Microsoft  decided to skip that number and follow
    8.1 with 10. Why did they do that? I've heard lots of theories, but
    nobody knows for sure why they did it, or even who at Microsoft
    decided to do it.

    But personally, I don't care what they call a version, alphabetical
    name or numerical name, sequential number or not sequential. As far as
    I'm concerned, it doesn't matter.

    And by the way, Microsoft isn't the only company to surprise people
    with their names. Another example is Corel, who, called the next
    version after WordPerfect 12 WordPerfect X3. They've since released
    WordPerfect X4, X5, X6, and X7. Will the next version be X8? Who
    knows?

    Or are there going to be random releases of other future windows version?

    And who knows what Microsoft will do with names in the future. Again,
    I've heard theories, but I don't know what will happen, and I don't
    care. I'll be patient and wait and see.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-06-01T22:29:15+00:00

    On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 21:52:36 +0000, CephasChapa wrote:

    Oh i get it. Well its so sad its the last one, i just downloaded and installed windows win 10 and as a University student in Zambia i find 
    it very fun and i think they had me in mind when they coded this OS hehe..... Suits my style. Go 10 Go

    The last one of what? Don't let the change in nomenclature make you
    think that something significant is being changed. We'll see what
    happens.

    And by the way, I live in the USA, but I was in Zambia on a business
    trip in the late 1970s.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-06-01T22:02:39+00:00

    Me too man as a number 1 fun of Win OS these versions prety much dont matter to me. My concern is if il cope well with the new released versionsof windows. The good thing is that i fell in love with all of them...... as you said lets wait and see. Mayb the next release might be named Window Prime........

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-06-01T21:52:36+00:00

    Oh i get it. Well its so sad its the last one, i just downloaded and installed windows win 10 and as a University student in Zambia i find it very fun and i think they had me in mind when they coded this OS hehe..... Suits my style. Go 10 Go

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