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What OS name does Windows 10 set to browser's user agent?

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It is possible to check in browser's navigator.userAgent the operation system of the user. I know we can't rely on browser's user agent because it can be spoofed, but we need it for a statistics purpose only. For Windows environments, value Windows NT 6.3 stands for Win 8.1, Windows NT 6.2 for Win 8, Windows NT 6.1 for Win 7 and so on. Could anyone advise what value does Windows 10 put in user agent?

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answered 10 Years ago agustindejonm · Accepted Answer

@NulledPointer has pointed out that the IE user agent will contain Windows NT 10.0. This is true as of the November 2014 CTP of Windows 10. That particular CTP introduces IE Edge Mode, which will be the only operating mode available for the release version of Windows 10. Here is a sample user agent string from @NulledPointer's link:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0