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IE6 SP1 Will Be Last Standalone Version
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.
This is the very reason why Lindows and others simoila to it MUST be embraced NOW! Now that M$ has paid off Netscape, NOTHING stands in their way...unless we PUT it there! And frankly, Lindows looks like our best shot!
One Nation under GOD.
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
I'm sure Hitler said lots of things most people would agree with, and not find offensive until they are told that Hitler said it.
Case in point: [loose translation from the original German]
"Whenever the name of me is used in an argument in a linear discussion of many people, the interesting content of that discussion will be at an end." - A. Hitler
God is real unless declared integer