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I think it's because they already know it'll be a crappy release, and they want to stick to the pattern:
XP - good
Vista - Bad
7 - Good
8 - Bad
9 - Should be good, but it'll be skipped
10 - Bad
This isn't a signature
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I just wish they released 8.1 as 9, rather than skipping the number 
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.NET has overloaded . operator. (. is equal +)
that way
8.1 = 9
That is why Next Windows is 10 
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There is no any secrets - MS just used positive reaction when people see "round" numbers - 10, 100, 1000... Plus "big increase" in numbers helps to convince people that there was "big change" in system.
Personally I don't believe there was something "rewritten from scratch" - MS has no brains to do that. Most probably it's Win-8 with "new hat" - new UI above old ugly Windows.
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Windows nine wouldn't work too well in German speaking countries
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I had thought about the German meaning "no" when I heard it.
I remember when Windows NT first came out (and did not work very well), the community said that NT meant, "Not Today". I think Microsoft would like to avoid those type of connotations again. Sure, they fixed up NT as they moved forward, but the "Not Today" moniker held on for a long time.
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I have also heard speculation that it was due to the perception in Japan of '9' being an unlucky number.
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It has something to do with Bo Derek.
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High version number implies more changes.
TOMZ_KV
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Yeah, because Snopes is the ultimate bastion of truth. 
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...because Microsoft uses base 9. No other reason.
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Obviously it's Microsoft Time; "7 Windows Remaining; 8 Windows Remaining; 7 Windows Remaining; 10 Windows Remaining" *Cancel*
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I'm not upgrading until Windows 13, anyway.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I thougth it was just a bug. The first patch of the new O.S. will correctly rename it as "Windows 9"
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It's a mistake.
All the even versions of Windows have been losers.
All the odd versions of Windows have been winners.
Seriously, examine the history of Windows and this becomes obvious.
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"There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary math and those that don't"... 
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They have skipped it because 9 means ripping your money through Jedi mind tricks in every language. Just think about the prices ending with 9.
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They didn't want Windows 9 < OS X, so they made Windows 10 == OS X.
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The best reason I have seen on the web is the following:
Quote: A rather unique one was brought forth by a reddit user, claiming to be a Microsoft dev, /u/cranbourne. The user claims that calling it 'Windows 9' would result in errors with legacy code such as this:
if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9")) { /* 95 and 98 */ } else {
Looking at that, it seems rather wild. However, another user searched for this code, and found many examples of it online -- in software designed for Windows. Looking through the search, it does seem plausible. I first saw this in the subreddit /r/ProgrammerHumor, and could not make up my mind if it was not an elaborate joke. However, actually looking at some of the code in GitHub that has variations of this check, made me realize that, somehow, this is the theory that makes the most sense.
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I read something like this on the web recently but I cannot for the life of me find it again.
Does anyone here remember such a piece? Do you happen to have the URL to hand?
Massive thanks in advance to the winner.
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There are hundreds of those. Maybe this one?
http://norvig.com/21-days.html#answers[^]
Approximately infinitely long.
edit: modify "execute typical instruction" to 0.25ns. Nontypical instructions take longer.
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Well given the typical 3GHz clock rate, everything would take 3 billion times as long than 1 hertz. So using the link above, accessing 1MB of memory would take approximately 1.9 years. And that's with no special calculations on top of it.
Jeremy Falcon
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