Microsoft to Business: Don’t Worry About Windows 10, Consumers Will Test it | CIO

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Microsoft to Business: Don’t Worry About Windows 10, Consumers Will Test it | CIO

Microsoft on Friday said consumers would become coal mine canaries who turn up bugs and problems in each Windows 10 update months before businesses have to commit to the fixes.

In a blog postthat outlined enterprise options for deploying Windows 10’s faster update tempo, Microsoft formalized what has been a long-standing practice by savvy customers: wait to accept an update until unwitting…

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Why Windows 10?

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So Anil Dash figured out why Windows is skipping from 8 to 10: Bad programmers everywhere.

It turns out that people who write programs that aren’t compatible with Windows 95 or 98 write code to throw an exception and stop their programs from running on those old systems. Only they’re not checking for the OS’s version numbers, they’re checking to see if the OS name starts with “Windows 9” to lazily cover both 95 and 98. Oops.

via: https://twitter.com/anildash/status/517430018889490432