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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They'll cut corners the more the shittier APIs and ABIs you provide

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The API is fine. It returns the internal version number (which is 4.0 for Windows 95), not a string. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winnt/ns-winnt-osversioninfoexa. There's no built-in API that returns "Windows 95" as a string.