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I wonder if they aren't at least partly tweaking Apple here. Remember Apple also skipped version 9 of their operating system. Even system 8 was "phoned in". At least Microsoft didn't make us wait a decade between versions 7 and "X" while milking us for money with fake non-updates called "8" and "9" along the way.

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No they didn't: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/09/my-coworkers-made-me-us...

They've never skipped an os version to my knowledge. For at sure, but that was to bring it in line with the whole x thing in the os

They called it "OS X" because "X" is the roman numeral for 10. They had been promising (and promoting) the new system for five years or more, but it was still years away, so they offered "system 8" and "system 9" which were mere incremental updates of system 7, not real OS versions. (But you had to pay for them because they had new numbers.)

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