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Expand Up @@ -1139,8 +1139,8 @@ Currently known values for ID MAJOR MINOR and BUILD are as follows:
Windows Server 2008 R2 2 6 1 -
Windows 8 2 6 2 -
Windows Server 2012 2 6 2 -
Windows 8.1 2 6 2 -
Windows Server 2012 R2 2 6 2 -
Windows 8.1 2 6 2/3 -
Windows Server 2012 R2 2 6 2/3 -

Windows 10 2 10 0 -
Windows Server 2016 2 10 0 14393
Expand All @@ -1165,6 +1165,15 @@ The version numbers for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 are
identical; the PRODUCTTYPE field must be used to differentiate between
them.

The minor version number for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2
depends on the running Perl version. Perl itself has been manifested
for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 starting from 5.24.0 (or more precisely
from 5.23.3, if one takes development releases into account). Older
releases of perl return the minor version as 2, while newer releases
return it as 3. See Microsoft's L<Operating System
Version|https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/operating-system-version>
documentation for more details.

For modern Windows releases, the major and minor version numbers are
identical. The PRODUCTTYPE field must be used to differentiate between
Windows 10 and Server releases. The BUILD field is used to
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