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Still can't get over them making a big deal about 10 being the last one ever.
They didn't. A single low level.employee misspoke at a trade show and the press/internet commentators made a big deal out of it.
I specifically remember "last version of windows" in the commercials and stuff, but I looked it up after reading your comment, and you appear correct. Mandella effect, or just faulty memory?
I refuse to be gaslit. This is the whole reason we had smaller feature releases like windows 10 Redstone, were pushed for game pass, and had the built in ads.
Windows 10 was supposed to be a continually evolving OS that made money from ads and subscriptions. When that failed they jumped to forcing new hardware and 11
Those are the same thing!
I remember that too, but more likely it was just repeated in news articles and forums and we remember it being an official tagline.