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Re:CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents by JonCox on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @09:00AM (#10973377)
Microsoft are at it too with Windows 10. Sneaky beaky ;)
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Re:CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents by speeder on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @09:24AM (#10973490)
This one is to workaround coders stupidity, despite winapi having functions to give windows version numerically, lots of coders just used regex on windows name... and the regex for "windows 9*" is extremely common
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Re:CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents by lawpoop on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @10:39AM (#10973908)
Well couldn't we further push that blame to MS' cockamamie versioning?

I originally wrote "versioning convention" but realized I had to drop convention.

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