Win2k identified as NT (was RE: platformName Re: Casing in filesy stems)

Peter Crowther Peter.Crowther at melandra.com
Tue Mar 13 10:45:52 UTC 2001


> From: Phiho Hoang [mailto:phiho.hoang at home.com]
> 'NT' is not a precise description of 'operating system 
> version' for Win2K, though.

All Microsoft's internal version lookup routines identify Windows 2000 as a
member of the NT family of operating systems, major version 5, minor version
0, service pack level whatever you have installed.  VerifyVersionInfo() also
returns NT-ish feature information (Server, Advanced Server, Terminal
Server, Small Business Server, etc).  Certainly Windows 2000 is a direct
descendent of NT4, unlike Windows XP which looks like a bastard child at
best.  From a developer's point of view, things that work on Win9x but fail
on WinNT are likely to fail on Win2000; things that work on WinNT but fail
on Win9x are likely to work on Win2000.

Check VerifyVersionInfo() and GetVersionEx() in the Platform SDK for further
details.

		- Peter
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Peter Crowther, MCSE+I, MCSD, MCDBA, MCT, CCI, LLAHN





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