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by docode 2627 days ago
Why not simply separate versioning into product and technical like Microsoft Visual Studio as an example: Product version: Visual Studio 2019 Technical version: 16.0.1

It fits good for marketing and for developer people.

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Because it causes even more confusion. Given a Windows 10 version number like 10.0.16299.522, you need a lookup table to determine that it is called 1709 by all the documentation.