title: How to find the Windows version from the PowerShell command line
body: <p>How do I find which Windows version I'm using?</p>
  
  <p>I'm using PowerShell 2.0 and tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>PS C:\&gt; ver
  The term 'ver' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify tha
  t the path is correct and try again.
  At line:1 char:4
  + ver &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; 
      + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (ver:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I do this?</p>