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Cute, like a virus writer saying he/she will give up writing viruses for os x

even people who use windows don't bother with explorer!
1st post...maybe?

Woo Hoo!! Break out the bubbly! Ding dong the bitch is dead!!!

So the Mac version will now be on the same support level as the Windows version - None!

Truly a piece of crapware, however I'm sure someone in the 'media' will catch wind of this and spin it into another anti-Mac article just like they did when Adobe stopped making Premeire.

it's not like the program was even on my computer anyways so psssh!

Maybe someday, we'll also see the following message from Microsoft:

"It is recommended that Windows users migrate to more recent operating system technologies such as Apple's OS X."

The last update to Mac IE 5 was in june 2003. Nobody should be using this old turd. Download Firefox if you don't like Safari.

Lame as Microsoft animations from the past!! LOL!!!!


http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/ie/5/autodemo/c_ienewlook.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/ie/5/autodemo/c_iescrapbook.htm

"and will provide no further security or performance updates"

Was I sleeping when they offered _any_ security or performance updates?

Oh no!
How am I going to surf the internet without MS Internet Explorer?
Isn't this the only way to get on the internet?
Does this mean I'll be exposed to virus and spyware with out the latest updates?
Is this a plot by MS to shut down Apple?
Without Internet Explorer does that mean I can visit iTunes anymore?

Just joking. LOL!

microsoft ends support for ie..... no one notices..... the end

ok - so what's the deal with everyone always trying to announce that they're the FIRST post. Who gives a shit?

*crickets*

IE explorer is the best. All web sites work with it. Some websites don't work to well with firefox or safari

I'm totally with Mike.

Except, just maybe I am the last post!

IE is passe at best. If a website doesnt support safari I think the website should be suspect, not safari!

MW: "indeed"

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

If you use Internet Explorer for the Mac as your primary browser, it's long past time to give up the ghost.

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That would be the.. *ahem... Windows users at the library reluctantly sitting down in front of eMacs.. and desperately clinging to the kludginess of Windows with which they are so familiar...

I see these guys going straight to the big 'e' everytime.. *shudder

>Explorer is compatable.
IE explorer is the best. All web sites work with it. Some websites don't work to well with firefox or safari>

Yes, it's about as compatible as your spelling.

But they should still make it available for download, unsupported. Why not?

I think they are afraid to--they know it gives too much comfort to switchers

Good riddance! Safari or OmniWeb or Camino all the way!

The fact is that there is the occasional site that only works with IE...sad but true...and it would have been nice to have a newer version of IE.

As much as you all carry on bashing MS many people use Office ( and I know Abiword is very good) and they are still the standard. Let's not forget that we had them first and any loss is sad.

As it stands now IE is missing many things but it is still a pretty good browser for just about anything. Safari is very good but still not perfect and I prefer OmniWeb.

"I see these guys going straight to the big 'e' everytime.. *shudder"

It's not as funny as watching kids come into an Apple store and immediately downloading an .exe file of AIM and trying to install it. Actually probably not funny, but sad.

Somewhere someone is saying their kids need to have PC's at school because they will need them for the 'real world'.

Lot's 'O Links

Firefox-Opes Source

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Opera

http://www.opera.com/

OmniWeb- The one that started it all

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/

Shira

http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/en

BumperCar-Kiddie Browser

http://www.freeverse.com/bumpercar2/

Camino- Mozilla Org's OS X Native Browser

http://www.caminobrowser.org/

Try them all,
PEACE

they supported this monstrosity?

Microsoft was supporting Explorer?

Is Office next?

I still use it to try and "break" websites I'm working on, however it's support of different things is so much different than anything else IE is not even really that good for that.

Jim asked:

"they supported this monstrosity?"

Well, they mean "supported" as in "life-support-ed". They just basically announced that they'll pull the plug. That's all.

If Microsoft is supporting Office for the next two weeks, what should I ask them? Remember, we only have two weeks left!

Ron, your brain is as bad as my spelling too, nothing more to say, Mr. English teacher

Does Microsoft support any of their software?

damn. I loved the "save as archive" in IE. Safari doesn't have extras like that. A pity.

I sure would like the addys of those who download it in the new year. I have a bunch of Brooklyn Bridges in inventory.

43rd post!!

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

I RULE.

"E explorer is the best. All web sites work with it. Some websites don't work to well with firefox or safari"

Always a sure sign of web developer incompetence.

If they are not talented enough to support WC3 standards, then you should find another site to do business with.

It's too bad people don't remember MacIE 5.0 for what it was -- the best browser in the world bar none in its own day. It had the best support for CSS including some of the first implementations of CSS2, it had the best rendering engine for HTML as well. It was faster than anything else on the market on top of that. It introduced bookmark management features that bookmark lists can't live without these days.

MacIE was also one of the best illustrations of how Microsoft's Mac Business Unit could produce a product 100% compatible with its Windows counterpart and still blow the Windows version away in terms of quality of performance as well as introduction of new features. The people in the MBU overseeing the development of MacIE were Microsoft's evangelists on HTML and CSS standards and as already mentioned, it truly showed in the product. If you wanted to see what your site was supposed to look like, you took a look at it in MacIE 5+.

As a developer, the one thing I never liked about MacIE tho was its single file browser cache. At the time, you had your choice between Netscape's screwed up rendering of HTML vs. "Microsoft HTML" files, so digging through MacIE's source files would have been helpful. For whatever reason, the MBU decided to implement a closed cache system you couldn't peek into easily.

Sure, Camino at first, then Mozilla, then Safari and Firefox (sorry Omniweb and Opera fans, but never liked those browsers) have put more and more distance between MacIE and their more advanced support and features, but if anyone out there knows enough of the times to be honest, you have to acknowledge just how important MacIE 5 was to the development of standards-compliant, feature-rich browsers.

Bye bye M$, we’ll miss you… NOT!

Any moron can get first-post. But getting last-post takes real skill!

And so it begins…they could at least put out IE 6 for Mac…

in the mean time…

2006: the Great OS War

But of course for every great movie there must be a sequel:

2008: OS War II: Nicomedes' revenge (The Conchoid)

If each is to be accorded by ability, then also accord each by need!

Internet Explorer... what the heck is that?
Isn't that some crap from that old software piracy company from the 90's?

Internet what now??

In related news, a dog in Australia took a crap.

Really, this hardly qualifies as Macintosh news.

I have long regarded IE as a major security issue in itself, however the fact remains that in the big wide world IE is the major browser and there are many sites that are only IE compatible or that work best with IE. In the UK, baks, such as Natwest, have refused to accept Safari as a secure browser and will only support Mac users with IE, Netscape, or Firefox; which is ok because most of us have these anyway, but it does show that big, corporates don't give a damn about Mac users and are likely to offer limited options for them and insist on pusshing IE as the primary browser.

Then change to a bank that values it's customers! I Bank online with LloydsTSB & egg using Safari & have never had a problem with either of them :D

brianmeg, let me ask you one question- would YOU trust a company that "refuse to accept Safari as a secure browser" and that "only support Mac users with IE".

I know I wouldn't. Especially a bank that claims to look after my money.

@ Hammer
I haven't seen that happen, It must be a bit of a laugh

When will Microsoft stop support for the Windwos version of IE????
Please Bill, kill it off.

Jamie - That's EXACTLY the reason I moved my bank account from Suntrust to Wachovia. In addition Suntrust banking system is Windows, Wachovia is Unix, and every aspect of its online banking supports Safari just fine.

Wouldn't trust my money with any bank having Windows at its core.

I regularly have fun telling webmasters that they should not develop for IE - it being the most insecure software ever developed. This was a reply last week from Audi:

"Thank you for your e-mail and the interest in our online activities.

We regret the fact that our pages are not yet optimized for use on a Macintosh computer presently.

Please be insured that our Website is subject to continuous improvement processes and that we operate constantly to optimize the performance of our internet appearance. Therefore, we thank you very much for your helpful notes, which support us to meet these requirements and ask you, as far as realization is concerned, for a little patience.

We wish you and your familiy a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Yours sincerely,

i. V. Kathrin Uhlig i. A. Maria Sommer
AUDI AG
Customer Care

Good Bye Microsoft!

Thank god for that!

IE was the biggest pos since windows OS.

YESSS!!!