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Hmmm.... not sure about that. The last MAJOR rewrite of the core elements of Windows was Vista. Vista; W7; W8; W8.1 and W10 are in a very real sense all versions of Vista. When MS makes significant changes to the core of Windows they change the Build number as follows.....
Build : 4.0 Product Name : W95
Build : 4.1 Product Name : W98
Build : 4.9 Product Name : Millennium
Build : 5.0 Product Name : W2000
Build : 5.1 Product Name : Windows XP
Build : 6.0 Product Name : Vista
Build : 6.1 Product Name : W7
Build : 6.2 Product Name : W8
Build : 6.3 Product Name : W8.1
Build : 6.4 Product Name : W10
The name of the Build Number was changed from 6.4 to 10.0 prior to the release of W10. But Build 10.0 and Build 6.4 are the same Build, with different names. The name-change was incorporated so as to enable developers, who rely on the actual Build Number, to recode those elements within their software to refer to 10.0 (which makes more logical sense) than to 6.4.xxxx.
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