Things that should never appear in IE on a server

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Microsoft, please make this go away. Your website is slow enough already when I’m managing a remote server without you trying to make it even richer.

Web sites know your OS, right?

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I’m no programmer but I’ve seen demonstrations of web page code that allows a web site to detect your operating system, browser version, and other details that annoy privacy nutters.  The sites can then (if they feel like it I suppose) use that information to tailor the web content to suit the client (eg, why [...]