Re: Microsoft newsflash

[David M. Ensteness]

Honest, I don't mean to be harsh but this is exactly the thing that has 
been going on for years. MS told Apple to discontinue QT for Windows in 
'96 under the threat that they would cancel MS Office for Macintosh, 
they told Netscape to stop developing in '95 under threat that they 
would consolidate the market and break Netscape on Windows. This past 
week they bought a Linux anti-virus company and then cancelled the 
Linux anti-virus package replacing it with a Windows only version.

MS stopped developing IE in 2000, they haven't done anything to 5.0 
except update it for OS X and a couple bug/security fixes. There 
haven't been any MS applications updated for Classic Mac OS for a long 
time as was already mentioned. Developers have moved away and are 
continuing to from Classic Mac OS. So goes the world. But IE is not a 
big loss, the various Open Source browsers are good, iCab and Opera 
give commercial options, I am a Safari guy 100%, its an excellent 
browser, faster, more stable, and more feature filled than others. Mail 
... eh, I use it, its not as good as I want but Entourage is over kill 
for me, big time, lots of bloat that I do not use. For those that use 
it, good for you, its just not for me. I used Outlook Express for a 
couple of years and it was OK, I didn't feel it was any better than 
Mail. MS is stopping its free offerings of any kind which was also 
stated already. This is just the latest. I want Macintosh to be further 
separated from MS so that we are less dependent on them. Open Source is 
helpful in that as is better software from anywhere else.

David

On Sunday, June 15, 2003, at 11:58  AM, cbirds wrote:

James S Jones tapped out this message on 6/15/2003 12:38 PM

There will be no further development
of Netscape.
Huh? This is pretty bad when MS can tell AOL what to do with its own
products


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