<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm not sure your intent on starting the thread, but I thought I'd hijack it because this is kind of awesome.<br><br></div>This little bit of inside baseball rumouring popped up in my Twitter feed today:<br><br>
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<p>Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing 
revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form</p>
<pre>if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9"))
        { /* 95 and 98 */
        } else {</pre>
<p>and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that.</p>
</blockquote>Which had me going "No, really?  Okay, yeah, maybe I can see that."<br><br>And then someone did a code search:<br><div><br><div><div><a href="https://searchcode.com/?q=startswith%28%22windows+9%22%29">https://searchcode.com/?q=startswith%28%22windows+9%22%29</a><br><br></div><div>So yeah.  Geez.  It's everywhere.  Including stuff like the JDK, NetBeans and Mono.<br><br></div><div>Even better than the "Because 7 8 9" jokes.<br></div><div><br>Darcy.<br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 7:25 PM, William Park <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:opengeometry@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">opengeometry@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Google it...<br>
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/windows-10-unveiled-by-microsoft-1.2782315" target="_blank">http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/windows-10-unveiled-by-microsoft-1.2782315</a><br>
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William<br>
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