I assume that’s just an excuse they created after the fact because when they renamed 9 into 10, 10 did not confuse itself with 1.0 (or 1.01, 1.02, 1.03, or 1.04). Nor did Windows 2000 confuse itself for Windows 2.0.
Those latter ones all have a ., which would presumably have been part of the shitty version regex written by even the laziest Windows developer across history.
I assume that’s just an excuse they created after the fact because when they renamed 9 into 10, 10 did not confuse itself with 1.0 (or 1.01, 1.02, 1.03, or 1.04). Nor did Windows 2000 confuse itself for Windows 2.0.
Those latter ones all have a
., which would presumably have been part of the shitty version regex written by even the laziest Windows developer across history.