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Microsoft Ends IE for Mac

Posted by Zonk on from the who-needs-ie-anyway dept.

RandomMacUser writes "A while ago, Microsoft stopped updating IE for Mac, freezing it at version 5. But according to this Microsoft webpage, all support will cease December 31, 2005, and any official distribution with cease January 31, 2006. Also, the webpage suggests 'that Macintosh users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple's Safari.'"

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  1. Frist ps07!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Frist ps07!!

  2. Microsoft admit defeat? by RalphSleigh · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There must be some evil world domination plan reason for this. But the less I.E. the better..

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  3. Re:Interesteing Problems by log2.0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I switched banks a few months ago for 2 reasons:

    -FF incompatibility

    and

    -They wanted to charge 50c for EFT's....thats a rip off (that was the real reason ;))

    Anyway, the first reason was about 5% because the only problem FF had was that they would display a message saying something like "you should use IE, your browser is crappy". FF did work fine once you went past that page.

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