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Agreed! I used to work for a Microsoft owned game studio a while back, and during their Microsoft <3 Linux campaign, or shortly after, I noticed that xbox.com w

Agreed! I used to work for a Microsoft owned game studio a while back, and during their Microsoft <3 Linux campaign, or shortly after, I noticed that xbox.com wouldn't work on Linux, unless I changed the user-agent to Chrome-windows or Chrome-Macos Loves Linux but blocks Linux by user agent. Nice. They changed it tho when we contacted them, so I guess there is some love, at least they were willing to change (when it impeded their own developers). Don't trust Microsoft!

f6v 6y ago
> Don't trust Microsoft! The fact that people might consider trusting ANY corporation is sad.
- edoceo 6y ago
  You can trust Edoceo, Inc. :)
Wowfunhappy 6y ago
Microsoft loves Linux in a very specific context—on servers, and as a development environment, in the latter case preferably running as a container or virtual machine inside of... well, you know.
alpaca128 6y ago
Similarly, if you want to directly download the Windows 10 ISO on a Windows machine you need to fake the user agent. In which case the site always claims that you're running an old version of Windows, even if you actually loaded the site on Linux.
prussian 6y ago
>Loves Linux but blocks Linux by user agent. Nice. Reminds me of Office 365. If your UA has Windows in it, all of a sudden they offer SSO authentication as if Linux can't be set up for it.
- merb 6y ago
  ?! sso means no relogin between multiple applications/platforms which works since day 1 on mac and linux. what does not work is seamless sso over the os (logon+browser+logged into office 365), but even that works with a good configured kerberos, but it's wonky and not supported. (only hybrid tough)
  - fzil 6y ago
    I believe you misread the comment, gp isn't saying that Linux doesn't support SSO but rather MS's website doesn't offer that when accessing from Linux unlike when they are using Windows.
    - merb 6y ago
      which is also not true.

f6v 6y ago

> Don't trust Microsoft! The fact that people might consider trusting ANY corporation is sad.

edoceo 6y ago
You can trust Edoceo, Inc. :)

Wowfunhappy 6y ago

Microsoft loves Linux in a very specific context—on servers, and as a development environment, in the latter case preferably running as a container or virtual machine inside of... well, you know.

alpaca128 6y ago

Similarly, if you want to directly download the Windows 10 ISO on a Windows machine you need to fake the user agent. In which case the site always claims that you're running an old version of Windows, even if you actually loaded the site on Linux.

prussian 6y ago

>Loves Linux but blocks Linux by user agent. Nice. Reminds me of Office 365. If your UA has Windows in it, all of a sudden they offer SSO authentication as if Linux can't be set up for it.

merb 6y ago
?! sso means no relogin between multiple applications/platforms which works since day 1 on mac and linux. what does not work is seamless sso over the os (logon+browser+logged into office 365), but even that works with a good configured kerberos, but it's wonky and not supported. (only hybrid tough)
- fzil 6y ago
  I believe you misread the comment, gp isn't saying that Linux doesn't support SSO but rather MS's website doesn't offer that when accessing from Linux unlike when they are using Windows.
  - merb 6y ago
    which is also not true.