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   KnowHow: Forms --- Operating System

Forms
It is actually not necessary to directly ask for the operating system on the user's computer. With JavaScript, PHP or Perl you can indirectly record that information. This approach, however, does not always allow the correct classification of the system type. Hence, if you really need the information about the operating system, for whatever reason, you should directly ask for it.

 

 
This is what it could look like:

Operating system as radio buttons

A typical question could be: Which operating system are you using?

Which operating system are you using?
 Windows XP
 Windows 95/98 oder ME
 Windows 2000
 Windows NT
 Mac OS
 Unix bzw. Linux
 Other

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