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Help With Detecting OS Programmatically - FantaŠec - Mar 21, 2018

Does anyone have any ideas on detecting whether a system is a Windows 10S system programmatically (Javascript/PHP/etc)? I have attempted to use javascript (navigator.useragent, and a few others), with no success.  
The problem comes into play that Windows 10S does not allow any application that is not in the MS App Store to be installed, so I cant just have a user run the program and have it report back, because it wont execute due to the MS restriction. Any ideas would be hugely appreciated.

RE: Help With Detecting OS Programmatically - Nachfolger - Mar 21, 2018

I'll be damned if you manage to get a markup language (HTML) to detect an OS.

OT: See the below answer
PHP Code

<?php 
$user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

function getOS() { 
    global $user_agent;
    $os_platform  = "Unknown OS Platform";
    $os_array     = array(
                          '/windows nt 10/i'      =>  'Windows 10',
                          '/windows nt 6.3/i'     =>  'Windows 8.1',
                          '/windows nt 6.2/i'     =>  'Windows 8',
                          '/windows nt 6.1/i'     =>  'Windows 7',
                          '/windows nt 6.0/i'     =>  'Windows Vista',
                          '/windows nt 5.2/i'     =>  'Windows Server 2003/XP x64',
                          '/windows nt 5.1/i'     =>  'Windows XP',
                          '/windows xp/i'         =>  'Windows XP',
                          '/windows nt 5.0/i'     =>  'Windows 2000',
                          '/windows me/i'         =>  'Windows ME',
                          '/win98/i'              =>  'Windows 98',
                          '/win95/i'              =>  'Windows 95',
                          '/win16/i'              =>  'Windows 3.11',
                          '/macintosh|mac os x/i' =>  'Mac OS X',
                          '/mac_powerpc/i'        =>  'Mac OS 9',
                          '/linux/i'              =>  'Linux',
                          '/ubuntu/i'             =>  'Ubuntu',
                          '/iphone/i'             =>  'iPhone',
                          '/ipod/i'               =>  'iPod',
                          '/ipad/i'               =>  'iPad',
                          '/android/i'            =>  'Android',
                          '/blackberry/i'         =>  'BlackBerry',
                          '/webos/i'              =>  'Mobile'
                    );

    foreach ($os_array as $regex => $value)
        if (preg_match($regex, $user_agent))
            $os_platform = $value;
    return $os_platform;
} 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18070154/get-operating-system-info

RE: Help With Detecting OS Programmatically - FantaŠec - Mar 21, 2018

Unfortunately the useragent Windows 10S sends up is identical to Windows 10. I am attempting to find a way to figure out which is which from a web instance.