Article by Ian Orchard in today's technology section cheered me up. He was commenting on MS's decision to stop development of internet explorer on mac. The cheerful thing? He basically said "who cares there are better browsers on the Mac anyway, no-one uses ie on it except to read proprietary sites". He also seemed to take the view that the bean counters will force the site writers to use universal (ie standardised) html code when they realise proprietary stuff is drving customers away.
Part of the background is that apparently MS is going to make IE part of the OS in future versions, meaning people will have to use windows to read proprietary sites. (haven't we been here before?) Refreshing reading for the "Press", albeit right next to a "how to use Powerpoint" article that didn't mention any free alternatives :-( -- "All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file for eth0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler module after a kernel decompile and basic repatch update." - theregister.co.uk
