Why Windows 10 isn’t version 6 any more and why it will probably work

Ars Technica
By Peter BrightNov 22, 2014, 2:05 pm264 pts
Artist's impression. A long-standing oddity of Windows is that its branded number has for some years now not matched the version number stamped into the kernel and other parts of the operating system. Windows 7, for example, reported itself to software as being version 6.1. Windows 8 is 6.2, and Windows 8.1 is…

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