Here is why there will be no Windows 11

We look at what’s coming next for Windows 10

When Terry Myerson was trying to explain why the version of Microsoft’s operating system after Windows 8 wasn’t called Windows 9, he said the name had to match how different this new release of Windows would be. «We’re at an inflection point,» he explained. «We’re at a point where we carry forward all that’s good in Windows and step across into a new way of doing things – a new Windows. Because we’re not building an incremental Windows, the new Windows is Windows 10.»

That new way of doing things is what Microsoft calls Windows as a Service. That’s a slightly confusing name – it doesn’t mean that Windows is moving to be a cloud version of an operating system. There won’t be a Windows 11 that only runs when you’re online, or has nothing but a browser like Chrome OS.

In fact there probably won’t be a Windows 11 at all – just new updates that add extra features to Windows without changing the name. Some of those will come month by month, others will be collected into larger updates that bring multiple features at once.

The first of these is planned for this autumn, adding features to the Edge browser like syncing favourites between machines and giving business versions of Windows the Enterprise Data Protection file containers for security. Then there will be another major update a year later. And no, you won’t have to start paying a subscription to get those after the first year – Microsoft has had to change the way it does the accounting reports for Windows 10 revenue because of the new update model, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to charge for those updates.

No need for Windows 11

That’s why when you ask the Windows team if a specific option is in Windows 10, the answer is usually «not currently» rather than no. Microsoft doesn’t need to bring out Windows 11, because it can just keep adding features to Windows 10. In fact that’s the way it’s built Windows 10 – instead of coming up with the plan for all the features and options at the beginning and then building them, the process has been much more agile, with small changes tested in preview releases and often changed based on feedback before the team moved on to work on the next group of features and options.

That process will continue because the Windows Insider previews will continue. It’s very different from getting betas of a new version of Windows once every two or three years, and rather more like Google’s cloud services that keep getting new features and keep their beta title for many years.

The fact that Windows 10 is a perpetual – and perpetually updating – version of Windows does explain why Microsoft wanted a more significant name. It might also have been intended to avoid the obvious comparison with Apple’s Mac OS X, which has stayed as OS X instead of getting a new number for each new release. Unlike Apple’s series of cat and California names, Microsoft probably won’t use catchy codenames publicly (the autumn 2015 update is called Redstone internally). But you can think of it as getting a new version of Windows every year, with the Insider previews being available for much of the previous year.

But how long can that go on for?

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Microsoft reveals the reason why there was no Windows 9

By Darren Allan 07 May 2015

When Windows 10 was first announced, everyone immediately had one burning question to ask Microsoft concerning the freshly rejigged OS. And that question was: “Uhh, what the hell happened to Windows 9?”

Windows 8 followed sequentially on from Windows 7, but somehow, Windows 9 got skipped – and it seems that’s something Redmond isn’t afraid to joke about, via Joe Belfiore’s and other Microsoft staff members’ T-shirts.

Yes, Business Insider reports that Belfiore (who is Corporate VP of Operating Systems at Microsoft) was snapped wearing the special T-shirt at the Build conference last week, with the garment bearing a binary-coded message that enterprising developer Kevin Gosse deciphered by scrutinising the photo.

So what did it say? Well, there were four sentences in binary in each quadrant of the Windows logo on the shirt, one of which ‘explained’ the fate of Windows 9.

It read: “Windows 10, because 7 8 9.”

Ha-ha, indeed. If you don’t get it, read the sentence out loud – because apparently, Windows 7 ate Windows 9.

This is actually a joke that has done the rounds on the net before, as was another of the coded sentences, which read: “There are 10 types of people in the world” – an old binary gag.

The real reason why Windows 9 was ditched? We reckon it’s simply because Microsoft wanted to literally put some distance between the flop that was (and still is) Windows 8 and its successor. It’s a psychological play and a reference to the fact that Windows 10 is a big step on, and far removed, from Windows 8.

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Why there is no «Windows 9» but Windows 10 ?

9 Answers

Some really old programs check for «Windows 9» when targeting computers running Windows 95 or 98 operating systems. If they had named it Windows 9 then these programs could break causing who knows what kind of damage.

So the decision was made to skip the Windows 9 brand and go with 10 instead.

The official answer from Windows (a well-known joke by now, it’s all over the web): “Windows 10, because 7 8 9.”

I’m protesting against windows 10. So I’m having a lot of fun with windows 98. Just a few more thousand updates to go! My friends think I’m ridiculous, but I’m going through with it!

that was a marketing decision mainly. they felt with all these changes after windows 8, that it didn’t really feel like windows 9, so they called it windows 10 instead.

Windows 8 was so bad, according to the majority, that Microsoft wanted to distance themselves as far as possible from it.

Microsoft wanted to express that win 10 is a next generation OS.

Because Bill Gates hates the letter 9.

They figured nine would suck anyway so they just skipped to 10

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Why Is It Called Windows 10 When There Was No Windows 9?

Microsoft unveiled Windows 10 pm Tuesday in a small, private press conference. Despite the fact that Windows software is used by nearly 1.5 billion PC users worldwide, Apple-style pomp and circumstance was missing. But the strictly informational presser left a few key questions unanswered. For starters, why is it called Windows 10 when the last version was Windows 8?

Some speculate Microsoft intended to distance the new operating system (OS) from the Windows 8 calamity in 2012. With Windows 8, Microsoft removed the «start menu,» standard since 1995, in favor of touch surfaces (though physical keyboard users outnumber touch users by the millions). This major change, along with other alterations, greatly confused many Windows customers and stalled updates.

Windows 10, which is now available for limited preview, is set to be released in 2015. It brings back the staple start menu and works smoothly with all devices, touch or no touch. Keeping with the theme of one OS for all devices, Microsoft is also pushing universal apps—when you download an app it can be accessed on any device. The OS also showcases Continuum, a program that detects how the device is being used and presents the best interface.

Though many are in agreement that the Windows 10 name makes little sense, some Windows watchers say it doesn’t matter. Microsoft has strayed from naming operating systems in sequential order before, as with Windows XP. But since this is the case, giving Windows 8 its name made even less sense—that OS was a greater departure from Windows 7 than Windows 10 is from Windows 7. Windows 8 could have easily been named something else.

The name is arbitrary, but hopefully Windows 10 will be easy to use— especially for the dads who made the «It’s named Windows 10 because 7 ate 9» joke on Reddit.

Update 10/1 3:45p.m. ET: One Reddit user claiming to be a Microsoft developer speculates the name has something to do with coding issues.