(imported comment written by EricWittersheim)
Ok I see the difference. In Windows I was using version of regapp. Which gives me the results I was expecting. It is the version of the file object that doesn’t behave as I hoped it would. Thanks for looking into this.
Q: version of regapp “Chrome.exe”
A: 35.0.1916.114
T: 0.850 ms
Q: version of regapp “Chrome.exe” < “35.0.1916.116”
A: True
T: 0.941 ms