yeah, but why? lots of discussions about user-agent detection and how its not a malicious attack against linux users, but no discussion how and why it is slow.

yeah, but why? lots of discussions about user-agent detection and how its not a malicious attack against linux users, but no discussion how and why it is slow. is it protecting users from something further in the UX? is it stuck in an infinite loop trying to download silverlight? are they actually redirecting users to a staging server on the cheapest Azure instance?