14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft hasn’t talked too much about the reasons that made it skip Windows 9, but the company jokes about this on every single occasion, and the recent BUILD 2015 developer conference was the best moment to do that with a geekish audience.
Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore took the stage at BUILD wearing a T-shirt with a Windows logo made of binary code, which, just like any of us expected, was hiding a secret message concerning Microsoft’s new Windows 10.
Needless to say, it was only a matter of time until someone managed to decode the message, so today Windows Phone develop Kevin Gosse has found what Belfiore’s T-shirt was actually reading.
As Richard Hay of WinSuperSite writes, each part of the Windows logo was hiding a different message, and there was one that joked about the reason Windows 9 never got to see daylight.
Here are the four messages, as decoded by Gosse:
There are 10 types of people in the world Windows 10, because 7 8 9. Congrats on being one of the first. Windows Insiders help us develop the future. Talk to us @ Windows
Straight to Windows 10
Back in 2014, when Microsoft announced its decision to skip Windows 9 and go directly to Windows 10, everyone was wondering what determined the company to make such a sudden jump, but the Softies have always refused to provide an accurate response.
Some said it was because the move to Windows 10 better emphasized the completely new approach that Microsoft was taking with Windows, while others believed that code that could have identified apps as running Windows 95 instead of Windows 9 was at fault for this decision.
No matter the reason, Windows 10 is now in advanced development stage and is expected to see daylight in the summer of 2015, while the phone version should get the go-ahead in October.