They really said that, since they are no longer developing IE as a standalone product, future versions of it will appear in future versions of Windows. Let's not forget the browser wars are over. I use Firebird on my PCs and Unixes (including OSX), but I am in the company of less than 1% of the computer users)
They actually said much more than that.
http://news.com.com/2100-1045-1017126.html
"Microsoft does not have access to the Macintosh operating system that it would need to compete" ..... with Safari, as you can see its old news.
Konqueror has replaced the mozilla mess for me on Linux, yet to try Firebird. As anyone can see this pc uses Moz.
Since MS does not expect any competition from Netscape or Mozilla. Even if Safari takes 100% of the Macintosh installed base, that means only 3% of the overall market.
M$ will always have competition on the windows platform.
Marcin Wichary wrote:
: IE 5.1 is the last version for pre-X OSes. There has been IE : 5.2.something for awhile now under OS X.
5.1.x for ppc classic and 5.2.x for X, no where to go really, sorta like Appleworks huh?
True, but it's also true that Microsoft issued a statement that it won't develop any further Internet Explorer versions... It was right after Safari was published.
So how much like Konqueror is Safari. ;) You'd use a skin on that one for sure. M$ have little reason to continue work on IE once the 5 year deal ended. WoW - tabs now, what will they do next?
Then again, at one point they told that Internet Explorer 6.0
is the best browser ever to be, and it won't be developed more, 'cause it's just perfect as it is. :) (I'm exaggerating a little bit, but someone from MS really told something to that extent, which of course was corrected the next day or so.)
Hehe, who'd believe it. Outlook express is the safest email client ever built if its never installed.
IE4.0.1 is the end of support for 68k which is as far as we need to go here, thankfully the browser wars will never end on 68k macs. ;)
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