Windows Phone browser resorts to masquerading as iOS Safari to fix website issuesIn a rather amusing change, Microsoft has decided to make their Windows Phone user-agent identify as Apple’s iPhone Safari browser. Essentially, browser communicate with webpages using a special identifier to tell the servers what kind of browser they are using. This is how websites distinguish between desktop and mobile versions of sites. However, because Microsoft’s browser is so insignificant in terms […]<img alt="" border="0" src="
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Windows Phone browser resorts to masquerading as iOS Safari to fix website issues