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Originally Posted by ApK
I can certainly contrive ways to do it, and since 3rd party
party libraries and tools might do things in odd ways, I didn't want to dismiss it outright, but I'm with you. I'm definately not buying it,. Sound more like the poster was working backwards from the name and trying to fabricate a reason.
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There was a long discussion on this at the time that the name was announced. Although calling the "GetVersion(Ex)" API is of course the correct method for an application to query the Windows version number, apparently there are apps around which do indeed retrieve the version "name" rather than the version number.