[Bug 43999] GetVersion incorrectly fails to lie about the OS version when masquerading as Windows 8.1 or 10

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43999

--- Comment #3 from fiendishx at gmail.com ---
To clarify I have two peculiar circumstances, the priority on which are both
probably super low.

One was kind of a reverse breaking. I work on a win32 program that, for various
reasons including legacy support for a system that I don't run anymore, is
developed almost exclusively in Wine (wine works really well for this old 98
era MFC stuff). It never had an application manifest because it's never needed
one. At least it was thought so. But because Wine reports the right version
info for unmanifested applications in circumstances where Windows would not, an
emergent failure on new Windows computers was masked. The solution here is
obviously to just embed a manifest that turns OS support up to 11, so
ultimately no real harm.

The other is, oddly enough, a demonstrator program for teaching about the value
of embedding manifests in applications that someone was trying to use under
similar circumstances.

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