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by guraf 980 days ago
I'm sure you're making a clever joke and I'm just not getting it.

All Windows branded as NT as well as 2000 (the first NT not branded as such) predate Windows 8 by over a decade, so I don't understand why you'd think one of them would be number 9.
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hef19898 980 days ago
Ah, my bad... I mean the last one worth using wasn't 9, but either 2000 or NT, which for the love of god always confuse nowadays despite having used both back the day... I think my preferred one of all time was 2000, but again not sure if actually was NT... I'm getting old...

Edit: Just realized GPs joke... There never was a Windows 9... And it isn't even that late...

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dragonwriter 980 days ago
NT version numbers were weird, and major releases didn5 increment major version numbers, but if you the first major release (NT 3.1) as the next major windows version after Windows 3.x, (so as 4) you would get to 9 about Windows 2000 (this counts 3.51 as a major release.)

Of course, that would leave out the consumer line starting with Win 95.

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