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Old 07-30-2015, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Man0warr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
It was actually because a ton of legacy applications have code in it that starts like "if Win 9*" to catch all versions of 95 and 98, which would have fucked up in Windows 9.
Windows 7 reported itself to software as being version 6.1. Windows 8 is 6.2, and Windows 8.1 is 6.3.