[ale] Belay that, OT, jre7u71 winXP won't install/update

Ben Coleman oloryn at benshome.net
Sat Oct 18 18:00:03 EDT 2014


On 10/18/2014 16:51, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> 10?   Did I miss 9?  Or did they skip that for fear Germans would all
> think “no!”?

Best explanation I've seen is that there's software out there that looks
for 'Windows 9' to detect Windows 95 or Windows 98.  Adding an actual
'Windows 9' would foul up version detection.

Ben
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