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[โ€“] Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because it checks if the version starts with the string "Windows 9*", not wether the number is less than 9.

[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 2 points 9 months ago

This is a myth - code that checks the version number uses the internal version number, which is 4.0 for Windows 95.