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Old 10-02-2014, 10:15 AM   #60
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post

In other words, a lot of existing software, upon seeing "Windows 9" would switch to Win95/98 code and would misbehave and have to be rewritten.
... except that you don't test for Windows versions like that. You do it by calling the "GetVersion" or "GetVersionEx" Windows APIs, and they return Windows versions as a "major" and "minor" version number, not a string. There's no possible way to confuse Windows 95 with Windows 9. Windows 95 returns a version of "4.0", Windows 98 is "4.1".
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