April 2008
Since Windows 2000 wasn’t in wide release at the time, and Intel wanted to avoid this tech support issue, the family code had to be changed to avoid a conflict with Windows NT.
By the time P4 got released at around the end of 2000, Windows 2000 has existed for almost a year.
October 2014
Looks like Windows 10 had the same issue! Per a Microsoft dev comment on Reddit:
Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form
if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9"))
{ /* 95 and 98 */
} else {
and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that.
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October 2014
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