I find it funny that MS would pull out of a market that offers some competition? Guess they haven't learned how to play with others yet.
-----Original Message----- From: Jesse Kline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 2:18 PM To: CLUG TALK Subject: (clug-talk) Interesting twist in the browser wars Slashdot is reporting that MS will stop producing IE on the Mac platform, they sight competition from Safari as the reason. I think that KDE developers should be very proud because it looks as though their engine has accomplished what Netscape has tried to do for years. I think this is especially interesting since I was a Mac user during the height of the browser wars. I was originally a Mosaic user, but I switched to Netscape when it overtook Mosaics lead in the browser market. I also watched as MS came into the scene with their version of Mosaic and eventually overtook Netscape. I never imagined that a new browser would come onto the scene and take IE out of the Mac market. This gives even more legitimacy to KHTML/Konqueror which I'm proud to say has been my default browser for awhile not. Here's more: http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/03/06/14/0442228.shtml?tid=109&tid=126&tid=1 87&tid=95 Jesse -- Jesse Kline, RHCT http://www3.telus.net/public/klinej/resume.html
