[reddalo]

I still remember when they used to say "we called it Windows 10 because it will be the last version of Windows"...

[MikusR]

Can you link something official saying that? Like documentation or CEO saying that.

[coucoualpha]

> Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows ...

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2015/05/08/window...

[m-p-3]

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...

Quoted from Jerry Nixon.

[phillipcarter]

That was just an employee towing the party line at a talk.

[dspillett]

Exactly. The party line being that Win10 will be the last version of Windows.

[taneq]

So it was the party line, then?

[guidedlight]

Apple did the same with Mac OS X, they stuck with it for 16 releases. Then Big Sur came out as MacOS 11.

[kergonath]

AFAIK they never said anything about OS X being “the last version of MacOS”. So no, they did not do anything like that.

I do remember Jobs talking about it being the foundation for the next 20 years, or something like that, but without mentioning any version number.

[quonn]

But macOS is a free update and compatibility within X was just as likely to break. So other than marketing nothing changed.