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Re:Windows Is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata... by carey on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:34AM (#14200451)
Some of those programs would have been Java programs, where java.exe is modern, but the program is not. The definition of os.name in Java makes checking the string prefix particularly likely.
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Re:Windows Is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata... by WorldMaker on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @02:56PM (#14205899)
Google Code Search, when last I was curious on the topic, turned up a lot of open source Java with starts with "Windows 9" checks, including some deep in the Java framework itself. It's hard to imagine there isn't as much littered in closed source and proprietary code. (Even probably code that never actually ran on Windows 9x in the first place.)
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