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by genocidicbunny 1637 days ago
Comparing with strings ain't no panacea either. There's some suspicion that Windows 9 was skipped because a lot of old software checked for Windows 95 or 98 by just doing a string compare against "Windows 9". (For the record, I kind of doubt this was much of a concern by the time Windows '9' was being worked on, but there's a certain logic to it.)