[About Windows 10]

Wind has been NT ("New Technology") sicnce 2000 :

http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/304289 :

"To determine the operating system that is running on a system, you must obtain the following data:

Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows Me Windows NT 4.0 Windows 2000 Windows XP

PlatformID 1 .................... 1 .................... 1 .................... 2 .......................... 2 ................... 2

Major Version 4 .................... 4 .................... 4 .................... 4........................... 5 ................... 5

Minor Version 0 ................... 10 ................. 90 .................... 0 .......................... 0 ................... 1

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and so on to today :

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The M$Windows - 10 is actually - M$Windows - 9 ...

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is actually NT version 6.4 ...

& Build 9841

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Vista was NT 6.0

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So , Windows 10 (9) is using Vista 's framework for booting (BCD) , etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista_startup_process

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FrequentlyGivenAnswer : The Windows NT 6 boot process <http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/windows-nt-6-boot-process.html>

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Look for the Build # to change as the Beta progresses ...

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