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Microsoft Kills Off Mac IE, Blames Safari
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.
But if dubya wins in 2004, the call to repeal the 22nd Ammendment (Presidential term limits) will start the day after. There were Reagan I fans who were starting to rumble about repealing it.
If that happens, we may need to wait a bit for anyone in the US to take action about MS's actions.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
It's funny how when you say something true, it's considered a troll, but when you say something false, it's considered a joke.
I'm not a zealot of any OS, use both Linux and Windows, but Apple seems just as shady as Microsoft, they're just not as good at it. Apple wonâ(TM)t sell their operating system for none Apple hardware, hell they don't even allow companies to make Macs the way any manufacturer can make and sell IBM compatible hardware. They sue every company that makes a PC the same color or size as a Mac and have copyrighted the name Apple (the word Apple was never used before 1980?). And most atrocious is their taking of open source software in the form of using Darwin for the under lying Mac OS along with other system tools and don't give back to the open source community by releasing the Aqua interface to the open source world. Seems like if you're going to take, you should also give back. I'm not claiming M$ isn't as bad as a company as some here think, but simply don't understand the love affair with Mac. In my opinion they are equally if not more an unethical company as Microsoft. Theyâ(TM)re just not as successful for theyâ(TM)re too afraid or incompetent to make Mac OS available to the X86 world and allow other manufactures to make Mac compatible hardware. They did something right by moving to a *nix kernel, so theyâ(TM)ve just expanded the software that run on Macs by 100, but just imagine what they could do if they released Mac OS to the x86 world? How long would it be before they were the dominate OS? The power and stability of UNIX and the eye candy of Apple would be a hard combination to beat. But theyâ(TM)re too greedy and too short sighted to release it. Mac OS is the only reason people by their hardware for its less powerful and much more expensive than PC equivalents, so if they did open up the Mac OS to the PC world, then they would most likely shift to a software only company. Would they make more selling just software than they do now? Iâ(TM)d bet they could take on M$ and be much more successful.
I guess I will have to start posting anonymously when it has to do with Apple...as the Apple supporting moderators are pathetic and instanty tag you as flame bait because you have an opinion or state facts negative about Apple. Pretty sad.