Comments on: Determine which Windows OS version is running http://www.shell-tips.com/2006/11/24/determine-which-windows-os-version-is-running/ Some useful tips about CLI tools, Shell scripts and batch files... GNU Bash, Windows XP, SQL, Help Sheets / Cheat Sheets, etc. Mon, 10 May 2010 18:31:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Michael Klement http://www.shell-tips.com/2006/11/24/determine-which-windows-os-version-is-running/comment-page-1/#comment-63193 Michael Klement Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:45:13 +0000 http://www.shell-tips.com/2006/11/24/determine-which-windows-os-version-is-running/#comment-63193 Note that this no longer works from W2K3 on, as any identifying name has been removed from the output of 'ver.exe'.<br><br>For instance, on a Vista system you may get:<br> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]<br><br>You can, however, extract the major and minor version from the output using 'for /f', which implies the OS edition - but only to a degree: Vista and W2K8, as well as Windows 7 and W2K8 R2 are built on the same kernel, and thus report the same version numbers. Note that this no longer works from W2K3 on, as any identifying name has been removed from the output of 'ver.exe'.

For instance, on a Vista system you may get:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]

You can, however, extract the major and minor version from the output using 'for /f', which implies the OS edition – but only to a degree: Vista and W2K8, as well as Windows 7 and W2K8 R2 are built on the same kernel, and thus report the same version numbers.

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