# Updating OperatingSystemType

**URL:** <https://forum.juce.com/t/updating-operatingsystemtype/9036>\
**Category:** General JUCE discussion\
**Created:** [July 30, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/updating-operatingsystemtype/9036 "2012-07-30T20:16:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Shlomi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/shlomi/32/99_2.png) [@Shlomi](https://forum.juce.com/u/Shlomi)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/updating-operatingsystemtype/9036/1 "2012-07-30T20:16:54Z")

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Hi Jules

Can you please add Windows 8 to the list?

This also reminds me that for OSX, while the function getOperatingSystemName() returns the exact version ( 10.6, 10.7) the getOperatingSystemType()  
always returns 0x1000 regardless of the version, is there a particular reason for this?

Thank you

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://forum.juce.com/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/updating-operatingsystemtype/9036/2 "2012-07-31T13:15:11Z")

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Thanks, I had forgotten about that - I’ll add Win8.

Re: OSX, yes, that probably does need a bit of a sanity check, I’ll take a look.

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**Author:** ![lalala](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/lalala/32/8577_2.png) [@lalala](https://forum.juce.com/u/lalala)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/updating-operatingsystemtype/9036/3 "2014-03-14T17:48:55Z")

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MacOSX\_10\_9 is missing in there! :)

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://forum.juce.com/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/updating-operatingsystemtype/9036/4 "2014-03-14T19:04:55Z")

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Thanks! Have added it now!