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but Microsoft should understand why this is an issue, they had to rename their windows from 9 to 10 because applications did check based on os name string and j
by Szpadel 4y ago
but Microsoft should understand why this is an issue, they had to rename their windows from 9 to 10 because applications did check based on os name string and just exit after detecting it contains "windows 9" as it suppose to match windows 95 and windows 98
- capableweb 4y agoMicrosoft is a huge corporation with multiple different identities inside of it, like every international super-conglomerate. The people who work on the OS are very different people who work on the web stuff.
- ivandenysov 4y agoWhere can I read more about this?
- Szpadel 4y agoI don't think that there was any well written article about as it was very plausible rumor. but you can see eg: https://searchcode.com/?q=osname.startswith%28%22windows+9%22%29 https://searchcode.com/?q=osname.startswith%28%22windows+9%2... to see this issue present in a lot of publicly available source code.
- MikusR 4y agoQuick look and most of those results are checking for macosx version or really old code where the only windows is 95 and not even xp.
- cpeterso 4y agoSimilarly, Mozilla recently had to freeze part of Firefox’s User-Agent string because some websites mistook Firefox 110 as IE 11 and blocked access because they no longer supported IE 11. The websites misinterpreted “rv:110” in Firefox’s Use-Agent string as “rv:11”. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1805967 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1805967