Quote:robkelk wrote:See also the way your browser identifies its version to Web servers. The new Spartan browser from Microsoft? "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0" That Mozilla on the front? That's to tell the Web server, "No worries, I can handle newfangled html advancements like frames and inline images." (Quickly googled post on browser strings)
I've been told with no evidence that they skipped "Windows 9" because there are still programs out there that check the version string to determine whether the computer is running "Windows N" for NT or "Windows 9" for 95 or 98. Seems a bit specious to me - there's a version number in the version string, after all - but I can imagine lazy programmers doing it that way.
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