On Wed, 01 Oct 2014 17:10:27 -0700, Peter Bennett
wrote:

I'm guessing the "Windows 10" is to compete with "MacOSX".
And that means all future OSes will be 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, etc.
Maybe it's acknowledgment of a "subscription future". I would
not accept a naive rationale for why it is "10". There is
some evil in that choice, which we'll have to wait and see.
This was not a "9 stinks as a number" decision. It has
some other meaning.

Maybe the next version is called "Windows 10" to avoid confusion with
Windows 95 and 98.

Maybe the intention is to name it after the decade in which it was
created, so in 2020 or shortly thereafter, the next version will be
called "Windows 20", meaning "Windows for the 20s".

You saw it here first.

Rod.