<div dir="ltr"><div>Sigh. Sad but true. This is the best I can come up with, but I did see an article with actual examples of "if (0 == strncmp(version_string,"Windows 9",9) ..."<br><br><a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/operating-systems/microsoft-apparently-skipped-windows-9-name-due-to-third-party-code-conflict-1267580">http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/operating-systems/microsoft-apparently-skipped-windows-9-name-due-to-third-party-code-conflict-1267580</a><br><br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Dustin Strickland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com" target="_blank">dustin.h.strickland@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That sounds like the punchline to a bad joke.<br>
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On 10/18/2014 06:00 PM, Ben Coleman wrote:<br>
> On 10/18/2014 16:51, Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
>> 10? Did I miss 9? Or did they skip that for fear Germans would all<br>
>> think “no!”?<br>
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> Best explanation I've seen is that there's software out there that looks<br>
> for 'Windows 9' to detect Windows 95 or Windows 98. Adding an actual<br>
> 'Windows 9' would foul up version detection.<br>
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> Ben<br>
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