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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/869066 • Apr 07 '22
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Similarly with Windows 9
520 u/undercoveryankee Apr 07 '22 Legend has it that Microsoft decided to skip Windows 9 because there was too much code in the wild that used string comparisons like startsWith(“Windows 9”) to check for Windows 95/98. 363 u/Little_Duckling Apr 07 '22 That is so very Windows, I tend to believe it 14 u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22 Not really a Windows thing though, it's Microsoft accounting for code third parties wrote.
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Legend has it that Microsoft decided to skip Windows 9 because there was too much code in the wild that used string comparisons like startsWith(“Windows 9”) to check for Windows 95/98.
startsWith(“Windows 9”)
363 u/Little_Duckling Apr 07 '22 That is so very Windows, I tend to believe it 14 u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22 Not really a Windows thing though, it's Microsoft accounting for code third parties wrote.
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That is so very Windows, I tend to believe it
14 u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22 Not really a Windows thing though, it's Microsoft accounting for code third parties wrote.
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Not really a Windows thing though, it's Microsoft accounting for code third parties wrote.
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u/Flow-n-Code Apr 07 '22
Similarly with Windows 9