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This "convulted version checking method" is the default way to do it with Java, I'm not sure if there's any other programming languages that do it as well.

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It's insane to check version numbers as strings. I guess the JDK is assuming you're not actually doing anything important with those properties (eg, just writing them to a log).

Python for example wraps GetVersionEx appropriately with sys.getwindowsversion()

Source for that?

Yeah, the OP[1]. A lot of the returned results are Java code, alternatively there's also [2].

[1] https://searchcode.com/?q=if%28version%2Cstartswith%28%22win...

[2] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environment...

No. He said that it was the 'default' way of doing it. Yes, it has happened X times, that does not mean it's the default way of doing it. Maybe there's some other method which is done a lot more often and hence should be considered the 'default' way.

System.getProperty("os.name")

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