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===Disassociation===
===Disassociation===
After the roll-out of Windows 8 failed to excel as expected and 8.1 was released to fix a few of their mistakes, Microsoft may have wanted to distance Windows 10 from this failure, and make Windows 10 seem much newer than 8.<ref>http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-what-happened-to-windows-9-2014-10?op=1</ref> <ref name="betanews.com">http://betanews.com/2015/05/08/microsoft-jokingly-reveals-what-happened-to-windows-9</ref>
After the roll-out of Windows 8 failed to excel as expected and 8.1 was released to fix a few of their mistakes, Microsoft may have wanted to distance Windows 10 from this failure, and make Windows 10 seem much newer than 8.<ref>http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-what-happened-to-windows-9-2014-10?op=1</ref> <ref name="betanews.com">http://betanews.com/2015/05/08/microsoft-jokingly-reveals-what-happened-to-windows-9</ref>
===The joke===
Although no one believes this had anything to do with Microsoft's decision to skip number nine, a joking reason was offered by some Microsoft officials, by hiding it in plain sight on T-shits that Joe Belfiore and other Microsoft staff members were wearing. On the t-shirts, was binary code which could be decoded into the following phrase: {{cquote|Windows 10, because 7 8 9}}
This joke has been around on and off of the internet for years. Sometimes people miss the meaning until they read it out loud. If they do, they see the simple explanation that apparently Windows 7 ate Windows 9.<ref name="betanews.com">http://betanews.com/2015/05/08/microsoft-jokingly-reveals-what-happened-to-windows-9</ref>