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Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture

From Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture
Date 2019-03-12 11:37 +0000
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Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:
> Not for me with my v65.0.2 in a decade old, updated 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 
> PC:
> 
> "Browser not supported
> 
> Use Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome to access Skype for Web experience.
> 
> Alternatively, download Skype on your desktop computer."
> 
> I had to change its user agent to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; 
> x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.47 
> Safari/537.36". :(

So, truly a return to the bad old days of IE's dominance during the 
early-Firefox timeframe, where nearly every site claimed "your browser 
is not supported" yet if one faked the user agent, the site often 
worked just fine.

Sadly, faking the user agent then makes Firefox's usage stats look 
lower, because now it (Firefox) gets counted as an IE instance not a 
Firefox instance.

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[Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-11 21:00 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-03-11 22:29 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2019-03-11 23:44 -0500
      Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-03-12 07:08 +0000
        Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-03-12 07:10 +0000
          Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-12 18:43 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-12 11:37 +0000
        Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-12 22:08 +0000
          Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-13 08:37 -0400
  Re: [Link Posting] Microsoft's new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-11 20:34 -0400

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