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Oct 15, 2014 | 5:00 pm

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Originally Posted by linsj

Has Microsoft lost the ability to count? What happened to Windows 9?

“It came and it went,” Prophet said of Windows 9. “Windows 10 is not going to be an incremental step from Window 8.1. Windows 10 is going to be a material step. We’re trying to create one platform, one eco-system that unites as many of the devices from the small embedded Internet of Things, through tablets, through phones, through PCs and, ultimately, into the Xbox.”

So there you have it: Windows 10 is such a big leap forward for the platform that just increasing its number by one numeral wouldn’t have cut it.

http://bgr.com/2014/10/14/windows-9-...-10-microsoft/

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