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IE6 SP1 Will Be Last Standalone Version

Posted by michael on from the end-of-an-era dept.

mokiejovis writes "Program manager Brian Countryman stated that "as part of the OS, IE will continue to evolve, but there will be no future standalone installations. IE6 SP1 is the final standalone installation." See the Microsoft TechNet article." Several of the people submitting this story have come up with elaborate theories about why: killing competition, etc. etc. I think the truth is just that Microsoft intends to integrate DRM very tightly with their OS and browser, and they're aren't going to try to backport that to, say, Win98, so they just aren't going to release new versions of their browser for old, DRM-less operating systems. In the future server-side browser detection may be more about detecting whether the browser supports the DRM your "web service" uses than what version of Javascript or CSS the browser supports.

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  1. Re:So how exactly has IE evolved in the last 5 yea by Timesprout · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mozilla took the last 4 years to rehash a more stable but slower version of netscape 4.X with tabs, phoenix is basically just the browser component of Mozilla. They have not exactly revolutionised they world with innovation over said period.

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  2. Re:IMPORTANT!!! The Linux Gay Conspiracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So what about me that downloaded the distro and turned gay because of that? You reckon I should join the OSS/FS community the soonest possibly? Please tell me what to do!

    p.s. image a beowulf od GNU/Goatse!

  3. Re:IMPORTANT!!! The Linux Gay Conspiracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well whoever wrote this is obviously gay.

  4. Re:IMPORTANT!!! The Linux Gay Conspiracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Speaking about "flaming," who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name,
    Come on, it's more than obvious that Jon Katz's name is nothing more than a thinly-disguised version of john cats, the well-known faggot jargon term for those deviants who loiter in public washrooms in search of (willing or unwilling) homosexual partners. I'm truly surprised that it has taken this long for anyone else to notice how this diabolical pederast advertises his favoured method of seeking underaged male flesh in his very name!