There are no good reasons to check for an OS version anyway. Checking for the platform, ok. Not the version. That can be handled with feature detection.
Windows 10: Code that uses 'os.StartsWith(“Windows 9”)'
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Re: Windows 10: Code that uses 'os.StartsWith(“Windows 9”)'
#12I don't find this search reliable at all. There are a lot of completely unrelated results. I couldn't find any related match on the 2.000+ Python results, for example. Same with C++. This is being publicized as "proof" of the rumor but it's not representative at all.
The Windows C/C++ API returns a structure with version numbers [1], same with the C# one [2]. Other languages just wrap the native C API call, GetVersionEx.
The most troubled framework is Java: because of some strange design decision, you can only get the version as a string (see [3]), and that makes impressively easy for programmers to screw up version checks. However, as other commenters have said, those apps could run on compatibility mode and Windows would solve the issue itself instead of completely changing an operating system's name.
1: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms72... 2: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment.o... 3: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228477/how-do-i-programma...
Re: Windows 10: Code that uses 'os.StartsWith(“Windows 9”)'
#13There are no good reasons to check for an OS version anyway. Checking for the platform, ok. Not the version. That can be handled with feature detection.
There's one good reason - sometimes feature detection lies. Or the feature you are looking for is implemented nonstandardly (brokenly).
Re: Windows 10: Code that uses 'os.StartsWith(“Windows 9”)'
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
This "convulted version checking method" is the default way to do it with Java, I'm not sure if there's any other programming languages that do it as well.
Source for that?
Yeah, the OP[1]. A lot of the returned results are Java code, alternatively there's also [2].
[1] https://searchcode.com/?q=if%28version%2Cstartswith%28%22win...
[2] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environment...
Re: Windows 10: Code that uses 'os.StartsWith(“Windows 9”)'
#15There are no good reasons to check for an OS version anyway. Checking for the platform, ok. Not the version. That can be handled with feature detection.
I generally agree, but I'd amend that to "there are few good reasons". When an API is present but buggy, sometimes there's no good way around a version check. It can still be regarded as a last resort.
Re: Windows 10: Code that uses 'os.StartsWith(“Windows 9”)'
#16So, when they get to Windows 19 do they need to skip to 21 to avoid all the 2000 checks?
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#18My theory about the "Windows 10" name is that there is an intermediate Windows Phone release coming in early 2015, and they've decided to call that Windows Phone 9. Hence the unified release will be version 10.
Re: Windows 10: Code that uses 'os.StartsWith(“Windows 9”)'
#19Apparently one of the perks to not calling it Windows 9 is that Microsoft doesn't have to deal with poorly written OS detection code that searches for "Windows 9" in expectation of it matching "Windows 95" or "Windows 98".
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