<div dir="ltr"><div>Do not start me on Microsoft. I have just written the following server code to deal with users clicking on a link inside Excel and Word:</div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-family:monospace">if (httpRequest.getHeader("User-Agent").contains("ms-office")) {<br></span></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-family:monospace">                     // Return with an empty response<br></span></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-family:monospace"> } else {<br></span></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-family:monospace">    // Actually do stuff<br></span></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-family:monospace">}</span></div><div><br></div><div>Because, for some <i><b>STUPID </b></i>reason, they can't just open a link in the user's browser; they probe with some weirdness of their own which, because it lacks any session or cookie information, causes the server to issue a redirect to the login page and it's <i>that </i>with Excel & Word decide to open in the browser.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Really infuriating.</div><div><br></div><div>J.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 00:28, Martin via Nottingham <<a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Folks,<br>
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Stunned for words!? Comments welcomed!<br>
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Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat,<br>
Microsoft will release {their Edge} browser for Linux – and it uses<br>
Google's technology<br>
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<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/22/microsoft_edge_for_linux_october/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/22/microsoft_edge_for_linux_october/</a><br>
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"This means Linus Torvalds has definitely won, doesn't it?..."<br>
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And our old friend esr gives an intriguing observation/opinion:<br>
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Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel, predicts Eric Raymond<br>
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<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/28/eric_raymond_linux_beats_windows_prediction" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/28/eric_raymond_linux_beats_windows_prediction</a><br>
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"[All] Happening in plain sight with Proton, WSL and Edge-for-Linux..."<br>
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Who is embracing who on this one?...<br>
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(Don't mention the guns! :-O )<br>
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Let the bits fly!!<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Martin<br>
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