Quote:robkelk wrote:I can see that myself. Rather than writing part of the "Windows 9x" check twice or more (which would be the PROPER way to have done it, but Microsoft hadn't yet shown anything other than "non-version number" versioning names, so the shortcut was likely assumed safe), just write to check up to the minimum point of the version string, and wildcard the rest. Which would have resulted in software potentially attempting to install/run that can't really do so under even Windows 7.Quote:Black Aeronaut wrote:I've been told with no evidence that they skipped "Windows 9" because there are still programs out there that check the version string to determine whether the computer is running "Windows N" for NT or "Windows 9" for 95 or 98. Seems a bit specious to me - there's a version number in the version string, after all - but I can imagine lazy programmers doing it that way.
Out of curiosity, does anyone have any idea what Windows 9 was to be?
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