Windows 10 May Have Gotten Its Name Because of Lazy Coders

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By Eric LimerOct 1, 2014, 5:32 pm136 pts
When Windows 10 got announced , there was one immediately glaring question: Why Windows 10? Maybe for the extra distance from 8, but a Redditor who claims to be a Microsoft dev has a better—and funnier—answer. The name "Windows 9" could break a whole bunch of lazy code. Read more...

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