Interesting, so they really just skipped 9 huh. Either way I'm just glad they're making the Metro interface, which is basically just a rip of the Xbox UI, optional and putting the start menu back. I was able to mod a few things in Win 8 to remove a lot of that crap and add the start menu, but it's still a real pain and I hate whenever I have to use it. I'm more interested in DirectX 12.