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lines changed Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -1139,8 +1139,8 @@ Currently known values for ID MAJOR MINOR and BUILD are as follows:
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Windows Server 2008 R2 2 6 1 -
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Windows 8 2 6 2 -
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Windows Server 2012 2 6 2 -
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- Windows 8.1 2 6 2 -
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- Windows Server 2012 R2 2 6 2 -
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+ Windows 8.1 2 6 2/3 -
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+ Windows Server 2012 R2 2 6 2/3 -
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Windows 10 2 10 0 -
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Windows Server 2016 2 10 0 14393
@@ -1165,6 +1165,15 @@ The version numbers for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 are
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identical; the PRODUCTTYPE field must be used to differentiate between
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them.
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+ The minor version number for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2
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+ depends on the running Perl version. Perl itself has been manifested
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+ for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 starting from 5.24.0 (or more precisely
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+ from 5.23.3, if one takes development releases into account). Older
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+ releases of perl return the minor version as 2, while newer releases
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+ return it as 3. See Microsoft's L<Operating System
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+ Version|https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/operating-system-version>
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+ documentation for more details.
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For modern Windows releases, the major and minor version numbers are
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identical. The PRODUCTTYPE field must be used to differentiate between
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Windows 10 and Server releases. The BUILD field is used to
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