While that sounded like marketing fluff, programmers suspected a deeper, more technical reason. Much of the third-party software written for Windows 95 and 98 used lazy code to check the operating system version. The code looked something like this:
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(If you want, I can list official Microsoft download pages and steps to create a bootable USB for Windows 10/11.) While that sounded like marketing fluff
Enthusiasts sometimes modify Windows 10 or 7 to look like what they imagined Windows 9 would be. programmers suspected a deeper
if(version.startsWith("Windows 9")) // Do stuff for Windows 95 or 98