In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Linonut
<linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:03:28 GMT
<slrnfak5qt.pm1.linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Microsoft Buries Windows XP in Windows Vista
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Windows XP might not be officially declared expired, but Microsoft has done
>> | its best to completely drown the operating system in Windows Vista
>> | references. Want to witness first hand the Redmond company's desperation to
>> | push Vista over XP?
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Buries-Windows-XP-in-Windows-Vista-61128.shtml
>>
>> The recent stories suggest that not many people 'upgrade'. New PCs have Vista
>> wiped (for Linux or XP).
>
> What a scream!
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/default.mspx
>
> And linux users get this screamer at that page:
>
> Your operating system cannot be detected
Muhahahahahaha. Linux...the stealth OS (to anyone who's
not paying attention :-) ).
BTW, in case Microsoft needs to buy a clue (surely they
can afford one at this point?):
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.8.1.4)
Gecko/20070627 Epiphany/2.16 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Maybe Epiphany gives it too much info?
Galeon:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4)
Gecko/20070627 Galeon/2.0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Straight Firefox:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4)
Gecko/20070627 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Slightly brain-dead (by design) Dillo:
User-Agent: Dillo/0.8.5-i18n-misc
Konqueror, which has its own ideas:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.5
(like Gecko)
For its part Opera also has its own ideas:
User-Agent: Opera/9.21 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)
as does Lynx:
User-Agent: Lynx/2.8.6rel.4 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1
OpenSSL/0.9.8d
and Links:
User-Agent: Links (2.1pre17; Linux 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 i686; 80x24)
www and w3c, line-mode affairs (I'm not sure if they're both the same or
not):
User-Agent: W3CLineMode/5.4.0 libwww/5.4.0
and Amaya:
User-Agent: amaya/8.0 libwww/5.4.0
Now if Microsoft sees a request from Dillo, Amaya, www/w3c,
or Lynx they might have an excuse, but all the rest clearly
have "Linux" and "X11" in their User-Agent strings (except
Links doesn't include the latter, which is understandable
as it's text-only).
This is opposed to IE6's:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
(The Win98 is presumably an artifact of my WinE/IES4Linux install.
I'd have to look.)
If I use IE6 on Linux and view the above webpage, I get
the very, erm, comforting message
Your computer is not running Windows XP, so can't be upgraded to
Windows XP Service Pack 2
Yeah, thanks for that. At least it's vaguely correct,
though it doesn't quite answer the question as to why I'd
really want to bother upgrading to XPSP3 ... erm, I mean,
XPSP2 ... anyway.
ObDoh: DOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!1!!1!!!111!!
(I'm not sure what Safari's headers would be, since I don't have a Linux
variant handy.)
>
> Also, I can't seem to find a list of supported applications for Win
> XP-64 there.
>
Don't worry. Windows will "innovate" them soon enough. ;-)
How long did we want to wait for that "innovation"? ;-)
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