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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Sure, but it will be an unambiguous string You won't be able to confuse Windows versions unless your routine to parse the returned value is brain-dead and not looking at the whole string. That's your error, not an OS issue.
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Dennis
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Yep, basically:
"Some people do stupid things to check the version, so we are going to skip a version number to cater to them" rather than, say, allowing the developers of a brain-dead program to fix the issue.
I'm not sure I buy this explanation, although I have heard it explained as a way to ensure backwards compatibility.