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Microsoft Ends IE on the Mac

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the clearly-macs-are-more-secure-now dept.

ron_ivi writes "Microsoft is to cease IE support for Apple's Mac on Dec 31st of this year." And with this change, every mac on the internet will become even more secure than their Windows based counterparts. CT Deja Vu 'eh? Sorry.

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  1. Whoopty f'ing doo by PenguinBoyDave · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I use Firefox on Mac. IE on Mac sucked. As far as I'm concerned, they are doing everyone a favor by discontinuing it. Safari is better that IE as far as that goes.

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  2. So much for Mac by W.Mandamus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    D*mn, we have to use an industry specific website that generates documents that there are no other options to get. The site only runs on IE. I was hoping to migrate the office to Mac next year. If we can't get these docs though we aren't in business.

    What I hate most about open source is that the developers don't seem to get it. There is industry specific business critical software out there that will only interface with microsoft products. We can't use OpenOffice because no document assembly program will interface with it and OO.O's developers don't care to put in document assembly. We've been using firefox for everything but one website because firefox can't work with an IE only website. I'd love to use more open source in my business but you don't make it easy.

  3. Plain English? by twitter · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    IE for Mac is discontinued and vulnerabilities for it will never be fixed.

    This is functionally different from Windoze in what way?

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