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



That sounds like the punchline to a bad joke.

On 10/18/2014 06:00 PM, Ben Coleman wrote:
> 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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