This WTF Moment Brought to You by Microsoft

[furrbear]

Found this today on MSDN. Can you spot what caused the WTF moment?

      if ( osvi.dwMajorVersion == 6 )
      {
         if( osvi.dwMinorVersion == 0 )
         {
            if( osvi.wProductType == VER_NT_WORKSTATION )
                StringCchCat(pszOS, BUFSIZE, TEXT("Windows Vista "));
            else StringCchCat(pszOS, BUFSIZE, TEXT("Windows Server 2008 " ));
         }

         if ( osvi.dwMinorVersion == 1 )
         {
            if( osvi.wProductType == VER_NT_WORKSTATION )
                StringCchCat(pszOS, BUFSIZE, TEXT("Windows 7 "));
            else StringCchCat(pszOS, BUFSIZE, TEXT("Windows Server 2008 R2 " ));
         }

Comments

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Well OK. But WHY?

[s2dbaker.livejournal.com]

My Inner Geek ( which is pretty much all of me ) is telling me that the Windows NT version 6.0 is Vista and 6.1 is Windows 7

Are you surprised that Windows 7 is just a rebranding of Vista?

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Not really. XP was a rebranding of 2000. It's just one would think they'd bump MajorVersion. Next up, Windows 8 which will be version 7.

I hope this doesn't start to look like the Solaris vs SunOS comfusion.