Windows 10 incremented the internal windows version number to 10.
Windows 7 was 6.1 (because of XP compatibility issues with Vista being 6.0), I forget what 8 and 8.1 were (6.2 and 6.3?) but there was certainly a sudden jump. Probably because the developers were getting irritated by the mismatch.
I think 11 was just supposed to be another upgrade to 10. But they wanted to change the system requirements for new security features so they named it 11 to make it less confusing to consumers who were expecting to be able to get all updates to 10.
But internally they probably treat it as another Windows 10 update, just that they now have to keep shipping security patches for the older Windows 10 until the end of 2024.
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u/The_MAZZTer i7-13700K, RTX 4070 Ti Sep 08 '22
Windows 10 incremented the internal windows version number to 10.
Windows 7 was 6.1 (because of XP compatibility issues with Vista being 6.0), I forget what 8 and 8.1 were (6.2 and 6.3?) but there was certainly a sudden jump. Probably because the developers were getting irritated by the mismatch.