You're a smooth talker eh Andrew? LOL On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Andrew Laya <andrew.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds to me like they are shooting for the lowest common denominator, not > a brilliant admin like yourself, Sherry. ;-) > > > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Joe Tinney <jtin...@lastar.com> wrote: > >> I doubt that admins are the target audience for those messages. In fact, >> this thread pretty much proves that. :-) >> >> >> >> I’m just guessing, but I bet the target for that is for those true users >> looking for answers via a search engine and coming across a KB article for >> Windows (enter ancient version here). So, then they go hacking up their >> registry without ever looking at the ‘Applies To’ section of the article, >> which is at the bottom of the page. >> >> >> >> This would be the same target audience for the ‘Fix It’ button. >> >> >> >> *From:* Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 09, 2009 2:07 PM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Re: OT Kinda: Interesting Message on Web Page >> >> >> >> Thanks Andy and Angus, I 'know' how it's happening, but you're both >> missing my point. Why the heck does Microsoft need to know what OS I'm on >> when I'm browsing their site & telling me I may be on the wrong page? I'm a >> network admin, I try to keep browsing from an actual server to a minimum, if >> I'm researching an issue then I'm going to be doing it from my workstation. >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming <angu...@geoapps.com> >> wrote: >> >> On 9 Dec 2009 at 11:00, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: >> >> >> >> > So I'm clicking on a link for a Microsoft KB article sent to me by >> >> > Sunbelt support pertaining to Windows 2000 & 2003 Server OS from my pc. >> >> > The top of the screen has this rather interesting message on it: "This >> >> > article applies to a different version of Windows than the one you are >> >> > using. Content in this article may not be relevant to you. >> >> > Visit the Windows XP Solution Center" >> >> > >> >> > Kinda scary I think...... >> >> >> >> Not at all. If you change your browser's UserAgent you can fool the web >> server into thinking you're anything, including an iPhone or the GoogleBot >> (this last one is very useful for reading news sites which require accounts >> -- they almost all let the GoogleBot in). >> >> >> >> If you're curious about what your browser is divulging, go here: >> >> >> >> Whats My User Agent? >> >> http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ >> >> >> >> Firefox has a nice add-on that makes changing your UA on the fly trivial. >> >> >> >> User Agent Switcher >> >> http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/ >> >> >> >> My default UA is >> >> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 >> Firefox/3.5.5 >> >> But I can also "be" a Mac: >> >> Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) >> Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.7 >> >> or even a Palm Pre: >> >> Mozilla/5.0 (webOS/1.0; U; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) >> Version/1.0 Safari/525.27.1 Pre/1.0 >> >> >> >> HTH! >> >> >> >> Angus >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Angus Scott-Fleming >> >> GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona >> >> 1-520-895-3270 >> >> ~! >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sherry Abercrombie >> >> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." >> Arthur C. Clarke >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
