diff --git a/include/onnxruntime/core/common/version.h b/include/onnxruntime/core/common/version.h
deleted file mode 100644
index c2274b634d..0000000000
--- a/include/onnxruntime/core/common/version.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
-// Licensed under the MIT License.
-
-#pragma once
-
-#define ONNXRUNTIME_VERSION_STRING "1.0"
diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/platform/windows/telemetry.cc b/onnxruntime/core/platform/windows/telemetry.cc
index 0a5a46e63d..93b10220a2 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/platform/windows/telemetry.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/platform/windows/telemetry.cc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // Licensed under the MIT License.
 
 #include "core/platform/windows/telemetry.h"
-#include "core/common/version.h"
+#include "onnxruntime_config.h"
 
 // ETW includes
 // need space after Windows.h to prevent clang-format re-ordering breaking the build.
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ void WindowsTelemetry::LogProcessInfo() const {
                     TraceLoggingKeyword(MICROSOFT_KEYWORD_MEASURES),
                     // Telemetry info
                     TraceLoggingUInt8(0, "schemaVersion"),
-                    TraceLoggingString(ONNXRUNTIME_VERSION_STRING, "runtimeVersion"),
+                    TraceLoggingString(ORT_VERSION, "runtimeVersion"),
                     TraceLoggingBool(true, "isRedist"));
 
   process_info_logged = true;