On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 02:53 AM, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi Lists
Has anyone else heard that Microsoft are no longer going to develop for the
Mac. Good
in some ways, I'd love to 100% Microsoft free, most of my Mac problems are
with MS
products.
So far it's just IE. They still plan to develop Office and VPC. Microsloth's Mac Business Unit is still around, and they still currently consider the Mac to be a viable market for them.
There will be no more IE versions, the Safari browser is an alternative but
not quite
finished yet, lots of problems with it.
I disagree. I started using Safari when the first public beta was released. Sure there are occasional pages that don't render right, but they are few and far between for my browsing needs. And, my bank's online access renders fine. I very rarely fire up IE, and often find that it doesn't do any better. Safari has terrific bookmark management (I actually keep all of mine in the bookmark bar using nested folders like I did in IE), it's very fast, and remembers all my login info for those pages that need it.
Pages that don't render correctly are probably using MSIE (or Nutscrape) specific code, and in my opinion need to be changed to support standards anyway.
As for Word and Office suite dont know whether there will be anymore versions
of this.
There will be. IIRC they are planning at least one more version. As Alan mentioned, there are alternatives. Apple is expected to release a vastly improved version of Appleworks, and OpenOffice.org is available as an X11 application with a native version in the works. Combined with MacLinkPlus Deluxe 14, Appleworks will be able to work with any file you can throw at it. OpenOffice.org opens several formats on its own, and is useable even on older B&W systems with OS X.
In any case, there are options. More than mentioned here I'm sure.
Hamlin
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