Mozilla on the coming version-100 apocalypse

I think it was mostly a marketing thing, Windows is totally happy to lie to you about its version, and there is no API to get the "marketing" version (like, 10, 11, 8, 8.1, etc) afaik, there is only a way to ask if you _are_ a particular marketing version. You can get them as strings but have to associate things yourself or really go digging around. And Windows is happy to lie about registry and file system content to you as well.

If you don't manifest your app I think all these APIs will tell you you're on windows 8 by default