Microsoft Kills Off Mac IE, Blames Safari

Posted by jamie on Saturday June 14, 2003 @01:05AM from the convenient-excuse-wanders-by dept.

aliebrah writes "CNet reports that Microsoft will not release any more major upgrades for Internet Explorer on MacOS. They cite competition from Safari as the reason for this decision, and say that Safari is a better browser for Macintosh systems. Ironically, they also say that they can't compete with Apple, because Apple has better access to the underlying operating system." Yeah, that must be rough. Today's SlashDotFunQuiz is to predict the order in which, impact when, and years until these other Mac products get the axe: Media Player, MSN Messenger, Office, Outlook, and Virtual PC.

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Re:Huh? by alienw · 2003-06-14 01:24 · Score: 2, Flamebait

Why MS would need access to Darwin source would be a more valid question. You probably never done any programming. Otherwise, you would know that any program that creates windows would need to use the window manager, and that having the source would help tremendously. Actually, all the system libraries that you would ever interface to in MacOS are closed-source, just like on Windows.

The only reason Apple open-sourced the Darwin core is because it performs no functions that could ever give anyone a competitive advantage. Having it open-source turns it into a source of free labor.