Re: Do not return true to all kind of Windows OSI calls

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Sat, 02 Aug 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/_OSI-method.mspx :
> 
> "Any follow-on operating system from Microsoft that can support the 
> Windows XP feature set will also return TRUE for Windows 2001. For 
> example, if Microsoft released a follow-on operating system in 2003, it 
> will probably be assigned a string of Windows 2003. This operating 
> system would then return TRUE for the strings Windows 2001 and Windows 
> 2003, and it would return FALSE for all other strings."
> 
> So, no, it is not a test for Linux. Windows reports all versions, not 
> just the current one.

I'd be careful with that "all versions".  The text only says XP onwards. We
claim OSI strings older than XP along with XP's and newer ones.

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  Henrique Holschuh