Why Windows 10?
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.
