On Monday 22 October 2001 04:07 pm, you wrote: > On Monday 22 October 2001 05:11 pm, you wrote: > > On Monday 22 October 2001 02:50 pm, you wrote: > > > In reply to Eric Baber's words, written Mon, 22 Oct 2001 > > > 17:07:10 +0100 > > > > > > Spoken like a true newbie. Linux and Microsoft do not mix. > > > > Could we PLEASE be a little nicer to the poor guy. > > > > They *DO* have IE for non-Microsoft operating systems. I believe > > Sun has a variant, and they were doing one for HP-UX. > > Don't forget MacOS and MacOSX. The latter could qualify as a form > of Unix. > > I wonder why MS sees Linux as a threat and not these other Unices. > I suppose since it can run on the x86?
I think a better question is, would Linux users even use a MS product, or would they find it too revolting? I personally believe that Microsoft Internet Explorer is the best web browser out there. For any platform. Period. I was watching intently in the mid to late 90s, and I can tell you right now that MS *DID NOT* attain their position in the browser war entirely by unscrupulous means. They were well on their way even before they started bundling it with Win98. MSIE 3.x would tear anything else apart. And when AOL bought out Netscape, the writing was on the wall. Hopefully the Mozilla folks can actually turn things around. MS had the better product. It's as simple as that. MSIE became leaner and more stable, while Netscape became incresingly more bloated and buggy. You'll note that virtually NOBODY on this list has recommended Netscape as a browser under Linux. They all recommend things like Ghaleon, Opera, or even Lynx before Netscape. I personally would not mind a version of MSIE under Linux if it works as well as it does under Windows. I think the original poster merely wants to bring ome of the more solid Windows applications over to help ease his migration. He hardly should be flamed for that. - John ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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