What happened with macOS 16 to macOS 25?

It appears Apple decided to go with the auto manufacturing way of naming the latest "models" with next year's designation rather than the year you're currently in. Just like MS Office 2011, which was released in late 2010.

MS also intentionally skipped Windows 9 because people hated Windows 8 so much they wanted more separation in the name. So it went from version 8 to 10. They also did that with Word for Windows. When the DOS version went to version 6, Word for Windows jumped from version 2 to 6 for no reason other than to give them the same version number.

Anywho, while the next macOS still has a name (Tahoe), I think people were getting sick of trying to keep track of which release came before or after another by a name. And version numbers were worse since Apple insisted on using "10" for 16 releases! Which constantly led to questions like 10.5 is what name? Or Mountain Lion is 10 point what?

Since Apple has been very consistently releasing a new major version of macOS every year, it'll be much simpler to ignore the name designations and simply say things like macOS 28. Which gives you both the version number and the release year.

Edit: You found the reason while I was typing. 🙂

Kurt Lang wrote:

Edit: You found the reason while I was typing. 🙂

Hate when that happens. 🤣

Maybe if I weren't so wordy. 😃

There's a reason my posts are very short. 😱

That one seemed rather long. 😄