If skipping 9 when christening the newest Windows OS flavor wasn’t enough to prove Microsoft is unusually bullish about the platform’s evolutionary prospects, the underlying code number should clear up the air once and for all. Redmond sees Windows 10 as the most radical operating system overhaul yet.
Currently, the Win 10 Technical Preview’s kernel is marked with a 6.4 value. Specifically, 6.4.9879, for the latest update seeded to beta testers. But the next pre-release build will go out with a 10.0 designation.
As such, the kernel number and official brand are to line up for the first time in two decades. In the early days of the desktop OS, developers identified Windows 3’s code as 3.0. But then an erratic marketing strategy and minor update policy messed the zen factor all up, and we got to the point Windows 7 was actually 6.1 for program compatibility purposes.
Confusion grew, and so did the gap between the two digits, when Microsoft rolled out Windows 8, aka 6.2, and 8.1, otherwise known as 6.3. The balance shall be restored before long though, at least from a symbolic point of view.
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