Why did Micro$oft announce Windows 9 and call it Windows 10?

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Last edited Sat Oct 4, 2014, 03:34 AM - Edit history (2)

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/09/the-next-version-of-windows-will-be-windows-10/

Terry Myerson, executive vice president for the Operating System Group, said that the new release represented such a shift in Microsoft's approach to delivering Windows and in what Windows will be—able to span everything from an Internet-of-Things gizmo to a phone to a tablet to a PC to a server—that calling it Windows 9 wouldn't be big enough to capture the differences.

Given the rest of the company's One-themed branding (Xbox One, OneDrive, OneNote, and such), Myerson said that calling the new OS Windows One was logical—but it turns out that a guy called Bill Gates already did that back in the 1980s. So the company went for Windows 10 instead.

Apple did the same thing with its OS more than a decade ago and has stayed there ever since. Microsoft's new brand opens the door to both major desktop operating systems being version ten... forever.

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	Because everyone is talking about the name rather than how butt-fugly the OS looks and the lack of any significant new features.
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	Because Vista = 6, 7 was actually Vista SP3, ergo 8 = 7 and 8.1 actually = 8, so that STILL makes 10 version 9, and I've no CLUE why they called it 10. Or something like that...I'm SO confused...
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	Because they want Windows 7 users to have the sentiment that yesterday they were driving a first-generation Prius, and now with Windows 10 it's like we got them a Tesla. (actual quote from some M$ dim-bulb)
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	Because they didn't want to call it Windows OS X, Mounting Lying.
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	10, because 7 ate 9.
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	Because it was leaked that Windows 8 users would get a free upgrade to Windows 9......which of course doesn't exist but HEY, it's FREE!
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	Because they figured 8 was so wretchedly awful that any version called 9 would be judged guilty by association.
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	Because...Benghazi! Obama! Muslins! Librulz!
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	Other, please explain below.
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