Testers Say IE 11 Can Impersonate Firefox Via User Agent String

Billly Gates writes "With the new leaked videos and screenshots of Windows Blue released, IE 11 is also included. IE 10 just came out weeks ago for Windows 7 users and Microsoft is more determined than ever to prevent IE from becoming irrelevant as Firefox and Chrome scream past it by also including a faster release schedule. A few beta testers reported that IE 11 changed its user agent string from MSIE to IE with the 'like gecko' command included. Microsoft may be doing this to stop web developers stop feeding broken IE 6-8 code and refusing to serve HTML 5/CSS 3 whenever it detects MSIE in its user agent string. Unfortunately this will break many business apps that are tied to ancient and specific version of IE. Will this cause more hours of work for web developers? Or does IE10+ really act like Chrome or Firefox and this will finally end the hell of custom CSS tricks?"

Comments

Headline and Summary Mismatch

[Internal Modem]

Wouldn't a better headline be "IE 11 user agent string changes from MSIE to IE," since most of the summary is about that?
The headline isn't even discussed in the summary.
However, it's obvious the standard ability of browsers to report a different user agent for dev and testing has been sensationalized here just for click generation.

Re:Hmmm

[YeeHaW_Jelte]

Yes that is all they have to do and surprise, surprise, they do it:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11575