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Author tim.golden
Recipients brian.curtin, jkloth, tim.golden, tim.peters
Date 2013-10-02.09:55:33
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I've just installed a Win 8.1 VM and can (unsurprisingly) confirm the
report: The "ver" command shows 6.3.9600 while GetVersionEx and
consequently sys.getwindowsversion report 6.2.9200

We do use GetVersionEx in a few other places (timemodule.c,
unicodeobject.c, install.c) but they're limited to checking that we're
running at least XP or at least Vista which will continue work as such.

I'm not really sure what to propose: we could simply sit back and say
"We're telling you what Windows tells us". It's unappealing, but I'm not
sure there's a clear alternative.
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