Why is mobile safari recognized as windows OS?

When I access my Dropbox via my iPad Air, Dropbox displays in its list of connected devices a windows machine. It confuses my iPad with a windows machine.
Today I noticed that Apple.com does the same. I wanted to watch an Apple Watch video and instead of being able to watch it I was forwarded to a QuickTime download page for Windows XP or later.
How is this possible and how can I fix it? Any idea?
I am using iOS 7.1.2 on an iPad Air 126 GB

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