Forum Post: RE: Why is OpenEdge Explorer reporting OS version wrongly?

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My answer was more to explain why it's hard to get this right than to point to a specific component as being at fault. Since Windows doesn't provide the version information in the form of a character string, programs which display version information have to generate the strings themselves based on the version numbers provided by Windows. This means that when Microsoft releases a new version of Windows existing software can't report its name until the software is updated. If changing which Java you use changes the reported version of Windows it sounds like it's an issue in Java, but I can't say that for sure.

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