Decoding the IE9 user agent
- by Portman
I installed IE9 in a Windows 7 virtual machine, and was surprised to see this user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; BOIE9;ENUSMSNIP)
In particular, the last two keys BOIE9 and ENUSMSNIP look very spammy. I'm used to seeing toolbars and add-ins register themselves at the end of the user agent like that, but…