And the usual madness begins, people posting weird blogs with 'RTM confirmations because XYZ' and stupid questions like 'is this RTM?'... geez.
Why do we have Las Vegas where people spend a $Billion US on guessing ? Online Sports Betting where people bet on final score ?
Well, there is a possibility of winning money with those ‘games’, but here? What/how do you win with Windows build numbers?
Like @kewkie said, Ego boost. I don't mind people guessing a final number, it's when the weird websites and phony information shows up that annoys me.
It's simple: "Deprecated" means that it won't be further developed but it remains in the product for some time because of compatibility reasons, before it gets eventually removed in a future release. It's meant to inform people that it's going to be phased out, and that they stop relying on it. ^^ see screenshot above