+1 on target audience +1 bazillion on "they go hacking up their registry without ever looking at the 'Applies To' section of the article" +1 on fixit button - same audience.
Sorry Sherry, you're too far above the skill level of their expected audience. :-P David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 11:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT Kinda: Interesting Message on Web Page 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<mailto: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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
