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We're detecting the OS version for statistics. Starting with Windows 8.1, the OS "lies" about its version when using GetVersion. However, System.Environment.OSVersion still calls this API as of .NET 4.5.1. As such, we've added 8.1's GUID to the manifest, which works great.
Now, I'd like to prepare the same for Windows 10. Is the GUID for this known yet?
(edit) P/Invoking VerSetConditionMask and VerifyVersionInfo to check for 6.4 or greater does appear to work.
<!-- This Id value indicates the application supports Windows Threshold functionality-->
<supportedOS Id="{8e0f7a12-bfb3-4fe8-b9a5-48fd50a15a9a}"/>
Other GUIDs for other OS contexts:
| OS | GetVersionEx | supportedOS Id |
|-----------------|--------------|------------------------------------------------------------|
| Windows 10 | 10.0* | <supportedOS Id="{8e0f7a12-bfb3-4fe8-b9a5-48fd50a15a9a}"/> |
| Windows 8.1 | 6.3 | <supportedOS Id="{1f676c76-80e1-4239-95bb-83d0f6d0da78}"/> |
| Windows 8 | 6.2 | <supportedOS Id="{4a2f28e3-53b9-4441-ba9c-d69d4a4a6e38}"/> |
| Windows 7 | 6.1 | <supportedOS Id="{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}"/> |
| Windows Vista | 6.0 | <supportedOS Id="{e2011457-1546-43c5-a5fe-008deee3d3f0}"/> |
| Windows XP | 5.1 | n/a |
| Windows 2000 | 5.0 | n/a |
| Windows NT 4 | 4.0 | n/a |
| Windows NT 3.51 | 3.51 | n/a |
| Windows NT 3.1 | 3.1 | n/a |
* was 6.4 prior to build 9926. After build 9926 it reports 10.0
The page that maintains the documentation for these values:
When running on Windows 10
| OS Context | GetVersionEx |
|---------------|--------------|
| Windows Vista | 6.2 |
| Windows 7 | 6.2 |
| Windows 8 | 6.2 |
| Windows 8.1 | 6.3 |
| Windows 10 | 10.0 |
GetVersionEx returns 10.0 not 6.4. see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions
– kobik
May 17 '17 at 9:44
