Except it was extremely useful for Windows's platforms to be numbered and enumerated.
Windows XP -> Windows Vista was a major bump for example, as was Windows Vista->7. Windows 7 to 8 was a huge jump when you consider the (mostly failed) WinRT runtime that was bolted on... but even from a runtime point-of-view, there are new low-level APIs like Winsock support for Websockets.
Calling Windows 10 the 'last version' makes me worried that Windows will become more fragmented like Linux. Sure, everyone is "running Linux" but the phrase is utterly meaningless. You don't know if your programs need to be coded with init.d scripts, or systemd scrypts... whether you can rely on libxml or even GLIBC vs uClibc (ie: "Android" vs typical desktop Linux)
Windows 10 will have DirectX12 for example. But when will the next version of DirectX come out? What will it look like? What will its deployment schedule be like? Is Microsoft going to continue supporting DirectX9 in the future? DX10? DX11?
That's just one of the many questions developers will have, and I predict that we will be left confused in the wake without version numbers.
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Except it was extremely useful for Windows's platforms to be numbered and enumerated.
Windows XP -> Windows Vista was a major bump for example, as was Windows Vista->7. Windows 7 to 8 was a huge jump when you consider the (mostly failed) WinRT runtime that was bolted on... but even from a runtime point-of-view, there are new low-level APIs like Winsock support for Websockets.
Calling Windows 10 the 'last version' makes me worried that Windows will become more fragmented like Linux. Sure, everyone is "running Linux" but the phrase is utterly meaningless. You don't know if your programs need to be coded with init.d scripts, or systemd scrypts... whether you can rely on libxml or even GLIBC vs uClibc (ie: "Android" vs typical desktop Linux)
Windows 10 will have DirectX12 for example. But when will the next version of DirectX come out? What will it look like? What will its deployment schedule be like? Is Microsoft going to continue supporting DirectX9 in the future? DX10? DX11?
That's just one of the many questions developers will have, and I predict that we will be left confused in the wake without version numbers.