Is there a way to identfy Windows version?

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On Tuesday, 22 November 2016 at 11:00:52 UTC, Bauss wrote:
> On Monday, 21 November 2016 at 09:11:39 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> On Monday, November 21, 2016 08:57:11 Bauss via 
>> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Phobos doesn't have anything like that, but you can use the C 
>> functions from the Windows API to do it. A quick search turned 
>> up GetVersion and GetVersionExA/W:
>>
>> [...]
>
> Thank you, I thought I would end up with something like that! :)

Obtaining the true Windows version is tricky starting with 
Windows 8.

Be careful when using GetVersionEx, it's deprecated. 
VerifyVersionInfo is more reliable, but it will not return a 
version greater than Windows 8 if your application does not embed 
a specific manifest. The dirty way to obtain the true Windows 
version without embedding a manifest, it's to check for the 
availability of specific functions.

Another way is to parse HLKM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows 
NT\CurrentVersion\Product Name.

And finally NetServerGetInfo is your best bet, but it's not 
guaranteed to work in the future version of Windows.