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ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference > ActionScript classes > capabilities (System.capabilities) > os (capabilities.os property)

os (capabilities.os property)

A string that indicates the current operating system. The os property can return the following strings: "Windows XP", "Windows 2000", "Windows NT", "Windows 98/ME", "Windows 95", "Windows CE" (available only in Flash Player SDK, not in the desktop version), "Linux", and "MacOS". The server string is OS.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 6

Example

The following example traces the value of this read-only property:

trace(System.capabilities.os);

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