22 Dec
2008
22 Dec
'08
10:29 a.m.
Am 22.12.2008 um 05:16 schrieb Chris Robinson:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 07:48:58 pm Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
The heuristic isn't "app works on this Windows version", it's "app is designed for this Windows version".
Should that matter? Plenty of Win95 apps will work in WinXP.
... because WinXP has such a version heuristic already in place?
I think it's perfectly possible to do an heuristic which is sometimes useful, but never harms. As already mentioned, the age of the installer/installed files is such a data point: Apps written in 1996 are never ever designed to run on WinXP. It's a matter of being conservative enough.
MarKus
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