Jul 28, 2015 8:02 PM

Everyone Wants to Know What Happened to Windows 9

Oh, math.

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Windows 10 is here—but the masses want to know, where is Windows 9? Well, it's nowhere. Microsoft went ahead and skipped from Windows 8.1 to 10 and boy are people confused.

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