Some of y'all need to see this and drop the superiority complex...
Image shows a tweet with the header "and people STILL try to convince me Linux and Windows are better when the DATA clearly shows otherwise. SMH"
with an image attached showing the following:
"Operating systems by current version"
Mac OS: 14
Windows: 11
Linux: 6
No, the problem with Windows 9 is that a lot of things compared the version with 9* as a catch all for windows 95 and 98, so they were worried with backwards compatibility.
There wasn't a Windows 9 because a lot of (poorly) written software will do a system check for Windows version and if the first number is "9", it won't work and complain that you need to be using a Windows OS newer than Windows 9x (95/98).
It was just for backwards compatibility more than anything.
After the X/XS/XR phones they went to the 11. If the XS was 10 then the X would be 9. It is a bit weird for them to do 8 and 9 at the same time, though.