Microsoft says no Windows 9 but Windows 10

In a media event yesterday, in San Francisco, Redmond-based Microsoft officially announced their next operating system code-named 'Threshold'. The new operating system will bring back the start menu and a few other familiar features that where lost when Windows 8 came out almost two years ago. While Microsoft executive Terry Meyerson told us about the feature of the new feature it was much of what we expected. The return of the start menu and more emphasis on keyboard and mouse functionality.

The one thing about the new operating system that was a surprise was the name. With a few exceptions Microsoft has used a sequential numbering system to name the newest OS. Going along with that system we all expected this OS to be Windows 9. The front office at the Redmond-based giant seemed to have other plans when they went from 8 to 10.

"When you see the product in its fullness, I think you will agree with us that it is a more appropriate name," Myerson said.

What Mr. Meyerson said in that statement might well be true but why skip over 9? That depend on whom you ask. Use on the micro-blog site twitter commented about the reason being the old math joke that 7 ate 9. If you asked a computer geek they would probably tell you the reason is that in our industy we count in bytes so after 8 we start over at 1 and add a 0. The answer that Mr. Meyerson gave us for the name is that they wanted to stick to the current trend in product naming.

“Microsoft considered the name Windows One,” he said, “to match products like OneNote and OneDrive and its One Microsoft business strategy.” He went on to point out that 'Windows 1' had already been used.

During the presentation of the new operating system there was no set date given for when we will see product in its fullness. There a Beta version of the operating system that can be found on Microsoft's website.