[kwlug-disc] Windows 10

[Chris Craig]

Someone started a comment to that article with:

"Odd releases: 3.1 , 98, XP, 7
Even Releases: ME, Vista, 8 "

I was surprised when the rest of their comment didn't revolve around
how ridiculous Microsoft's versioning system is.

On 1 October 2014 19:55, Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure your intent on starting the thread, but I thought I'd hijack it
> because this is kind of awesome.
>
> This little bit of inside baseball rumouring popped up in my Twitter feed
> today:
>
> Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed
> just how many third party products that had code of the form
>
> if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9"))
> 	{ /* 95 and 98 */
> 	} else {
>
> and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that.
>
> Which had me going "No, really?  Okay, yeah, maybe I can see that."
>
> And then someone did a code search:
>
> https://searchcode.com/?q=startswith%28%22windows+9%22%29
>
> So yeah.  Geez.  It's everywhere.  Including stuff like the JDK, NetBeans
> and Mono.
>
> Even better than the "Because 7 8 9" jokes.
>
> Darcy.
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 7:25 PM, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Google it...
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/windows-10-unveiled-by-microsoft-1.2782315
>> --
>> William
>>
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