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A better question would be: why are you visiting a Microsoft website to indicate your operating system, when you clearly already know which operating system you
by pearjuice 13y ago
A better question would be: why are you visiting a Microsoft website to indicate your operating system, when you clearly already know which operating system you are running, which is not even from Microsoft in the first place!?
- CanSpice 13y agoBecause this shows the difficulty in using user agent strings to determine the client OS. This sort of thing is common when offering downloads, for example, so the user doesn't have to pick which link to click, they just get a "download now!" link that's crafted for their specific OS.
- pavs 13y agodifficulty or incompetence?
- bushido 13y ago> difficulty or incompetence? Probably neither, it could be shortsightedness, or simply a tool that their tech support (or other help forums) use for people who do not know what OS they are using. There are A LOT of people I have met through the years who could not tell the OS they were using. They'd not even be able to tell any Win OS, Linux distros or Mac OS versions apart. Sure whoever built the page could assume that someone may take their over simplifications as a sign of incompetence. Realistically though, on one hand users/developers/entrepreneurs/wantrepreneurs/etc could take stock of the simplicity of the tool (for people who need to find out what Win OS they use) OR on the other we could bash 'em for not catering to the other markets. Ignoring the latter in no way demonstrates incompetence.
- jablan 13y agoIs that a rhetorical question? I was curious whether they will correctly determine my OS. Frankly, I was expecting something like "you are not using Windows".
- rbanffy 13y agoWhy not? But, in reality, yours not a better question. The Microsoft tool could, obviously and easily, detect non-Microsoft operating systems and report them as such.