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  • Newer software aimed at newer Windows versions usually had a code that checked the user’s Windows version. If the version began with a 9, it was interpreted as one of the Windows 9x operating systems, for which the software was unsupported. If that was the case, the user couldn’t run the software at all. Microsoft wanted to prevent such situation from happening with a new Windows release, so they skipped straight to 10.