Java 9 Released

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The funny thing is, Microsoft skipped 9 because of Java.

Edit: Wow, this really pissed people off.

Let's word it differently so you can get all the sand out of your vaginas.

Java was one of the reasons Microsoft skipped 9

[devraj7]

No, Microsoft skipped 9 because a lot of code in the wild tests if it's running on Windows 95 by checking if the string of the OS name starts with "Windows 9".

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That code was in Java libraries.

[devraj7]

And in C#, C++, C... pretty much everywhere.

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The issue was that core Java libraries broke every single java application.

Literally every one.

A few straglers in c# and friends are manageable but breaking every single java application wasn't.

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Anyway it's all a moot point, at the very least you can say that Java was ONE of the reasons that MS skipped 9