In HTTP the user agent for Windows XP shows as NT5.1. Apparently W2K is NT5.0. If Vista is 6.x, then Windows 7 is 7.x. If Vista is indeed 6.x, then saying that Windows 7 is the seventh version can be justified according to a well-established, if not well understood, Microsoft numbering system.
OK I just picked this up from http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/09/20/763891.aspx: * On Windows XP SP2, IE7 will send the following User-Agent header: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1) * On Windows 2003 Server, IE7 will send the following User-Agent header: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2) * On Windows Vista, IE7 will send the following User-Agent header: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0) On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:08 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I don't count the NY times with any intelligence..among other things, > this isn't the 7th version of os's for MS. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
