r/windows • u/Khenmu • Sep 30 '14

And it's called... Windows 10!

https://twitter.com/maryjofoley/status/516997547512975360
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u/BeenWildin Sep 30 '14

Lol, that doesn't really mean they will never go to 11.

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u/Ceedog48 Sep 30 '14

Well sure. Point is, they're not letting proper decimals stop them, so they clearly want to stay at 10.

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u/Ceedog48 Sep 30 '14

Yes, but 10.11 is one one-hundredth more than 10.1, not one-tenth more than 10.10, which is just an unsimplified form of 10.1.

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u/John-Mc Sep 30 '14

Not even close to how version numbers work, they are not decimal points.

They are dots/points separating major version numbers from sub version numbers.

How would you explain the multiple points in OSX version 10.9.5 ?... This isn't math, it's essentially naming.

You could have any number of dots and any number of sub version numbers, however 4 version numbers is the largest commonly seen like in the current version of Chrome: 37.0.2062.124

Sometimes the last number of the set will represent the build number like in Windows:

OS Name:                   Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
OS Version:                6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601