Mozilla on the coming version-100 apocalypse

Posted Feb 18, 2022 9:53 UTC (Fri) by beagnach (guest, #32987)
In reply to: Mozilla on the coming version-100 apocalypse by khim
Parent article: Mozilla on the coming version-100 apocalypse

> Windows 10 and Windows 11 carry the same major and minor versions, only build number is different.

But.. but... WHY???

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Mozilla on the coming version-100 apocalypse

Posted Feb 18, 2022 10:15 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

I'm 99% sure that's to ensure old drivers and, more importantly, old driver installers work.

I have friend who uses Windows 11 on Lenovo ThinkPad 430s. That's 10 years old model by now. You can not, officially, install Windows on it but Rufus can alter install image and then it's installable. Everything works perfectly (except for some DRM feature which actually require TPM 2.0, I guess, but my friend had no need for them).

After installation it pulls drivers for all exotic hardware from Windows Update and everything works. All drivers predate Windows 11 creation and I suspect some would try to check both major and minor version of Windows during installation.

Thus hole was dug deeper and now build numbers only distinguish Windows 10 and 11.