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Microsoft accidentally leaks internal tool that can enable hidden Windows 11 features (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] tool@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine they skip 12 and call it 13 like they did with W10

With as little sense as Microsoft makes most of the time, that decision actually does make sense. A lot of programs and scripts were lazy about checking the Windows version and just checked for the presence of a '9' in the version string to determine if they were running on Windows 95/98.

A bunch of shit would have broken if they had released Windows 10 as Windows 9, which is what it should have been semantically.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Never knew that, and it makes total sense.