Why was there not a Windows 9?

Microsoft simply decided not to name their Windows 8 successor as Windows 9 but went with Windows 10 instead, which was originally code-named Threshold. … You don’t have to download something called "Windows 9" and, technically, you don’t even really need to understand why Microsoft skipped it.

Microsoft simply decided not to name their Windows 8 successor as Windows 9 but went with Windows 10 instead, which was originally code-named Threshold. … You don’t have to download something called "Windows 9" and, technically, you don’t even really need to understand why Microsoft skipped it.

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