Why would an IE8 in a desktop has a 'Tablet PC 2.0' in its user-agent string?
- by ultrajohn
I am just curious, why would a windows 7 desktop, installed with ie8, have Tablet PC 2.0 in its user agent string.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2;
.NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media
Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; Tablet PC 2.0) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR
3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; Tablet
PC 2.0)
Is this a feature in Windows 7, how can I turn this off in IE8?
Other browsers on the same computer don't have such string in the user-agent string they send.
As a result, one of our web application confuses this particular desktop client as a mobile (because of the tablet), hence returns the mobile version of our website to it.
Thank you!