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Marketing maybe? If you are good about being backward compatible, you never release n+1, which might be mistaken for being stale vs your competitors.

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“This was version 2.something when I started, I’ve been working on this for n years and it’s still version 2.something” sure sounds like a demotivating feeling to me, too.

Interesting!

If I worked on a product that was version 2.1 when I started, and 5 years later was on version 6.5 without any actual rewrites or improvements in it, I would find that just as demotivating.

If I worked on something for 5 years with no rewrites/improvements, I'd be demotivated as crap, no matter the version number...

Realistically, I think there are a lot of people working in these sorts of situations.

Such a stable environment would leave a lot of room for side projects on a stable paycheck, or getting some extracurricular qualifications.

Yeah, and I've been in a similar situaton. A year in, and my wife told me I needed to get a new job cause that one was making me "depressed"

Can't marketing just focus on the minor part as Java does?

Marketing will, of course, do whatever they want. 3.x, 95, 98, ME, XP, NT, Vista, 7, 8, 10. Or just change the name when they want, ala macOS.

Edit: added Vista... thanks!

XBox -> XBox 360 -> XBox One... If the next console from Microsoft is controller that live streams games from the cloud I expect it to be called the XBox ExBox.

And if it’s a full console, the next Xbox should be the ‘Xbox 361’. Or the ‘Xbox -359’, maybe?

"with Office 365 integration"

Or switch to radian, Xbox 2pi or Xbox Tau

XBox Origin

you forgot Vista

This is the real answer. Semver is a tool to keep code from breaking while communicating useful information to developers and engineers. Branding is an entirely different game, and the branding doesn't have to be machine-readable or adhere to any spec.

God forbid we have any maturity and reliability in our industry. Just tell people "We don't fix what ain't broke".

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