In essence, they had to modify their UA string to get a number of sites to render properly in mobile IE. Unfortunately the article doesn’t go into details as to whether they only changed the default UA or if they use a per-site override mechanism, or a combination of both (like we do).
Here’s an interesting read from the mobile IE development team: http:// blogs.msdn. com/b/ie/ archive/ 2014/07/ 31/the- mobile- web-should- just-work- for-everyone. aspx.
In essence, they had to modify their UA string to get a number of sites to render properly in mobile IE. Unfortunately the article doesn’t go into details as to whether they only changed the default UA or if they use a per-site override mechanism, or a combination of both (like we do).