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Royce Mitchell III wrote:
All these discussions are really rather moot. We will never *be* any particular version of Windows. We might as well report the latest, giving the user the option to change it for finicky programs.
As I mentioned previously, we ought to default to reporting a "future" version of Windows, just to keep nosy version-checking apps happy.
But don't report more then what you're capable of dealing of dealing with the function calls of, at the same time. For example, ROS doesn't support XP themes/skinning of the OS yet, so I wouldn't set it to claim it... some applications act differently if you're on Windows XP because of that. I would default to Win2k if you've got that implemented, and then in the future give the user a choice to change the version for the system as a whole if they want, say if they are running all really old apps or something.
Because it will never be an exact Windows, the settings *should* be changeable anyway, and allow the users to change it, because that would allow someone to continue to use "outdated/Not supported" software on a new more secure environment. I'd like if that type of thing were right in the control panel, personally, but I couldn't implement something like that if I tried. I'm just not yet a programmer.
- Mike
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