Presence and IntComm WG

[Ben Teitelbaum <>]

Deke Kassabian 
<>
 writes:

> Interesting, thanks.
>
> How was Haiyan able to report "Windows" as opposed to "A MAC address
> with a prefix typically associated with a Windows PC"?
>
> Did these numbers come from browser identification rather than
> hardware address identification?  

Hainyan has confirmed to me that the platform counts in fact came from
browser type, extracted from User-Agent during the web-based MAC
address registration process.

-- ben

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