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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. Back in 1999 it was a very good browser by YA_Python_dev · · Score: 5, Informative

    Everyone please remember that IE/Mac is a very different browser than IE/Win, and back in 1999/2000 it was one of the most standards-compliant browsers around.

    According to The Web Standards Project it helped to start the "CSS layout revolution".

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  2. Same freaking article title, much worse snarking by frankie · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quick refresher course in web history: 5 years down the road, Mac IE is outdated and in desperate need of retirement. But back in 2000, Mac IE5 was far and away the most standards compliant browser available. It had little or nothing to do with Win IE, except that IE6 was later based on Mac IE's rendering engine. It did not support ActiveX, and has no higher security risk than anything from Mozilla and pals.

    Sheesh, the very latest article for Jebus' sake!

  3. Re:from the-dupe-dept. by Dun+Malg · · Score: 5, Informative
    why must all 12 posters in my example above think that they were the first (and only) person to realize it was a duplicate story?

    They don't think that. It's just that since it is a dupe, the actual content has already been extensively commented on elsewhere, leaving nothing but its status as a dupe to talk about. If you want to read about MS discontinuing IE for the Mac, go back to the original article on the subject. The de facto topic under discussion in duped articles always reverts to "dupes and the lazy, unprofessional /. editors who post them".

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  4. I TOLD THEM IT WAS A DUPE!!!! by FyRE666 · · Score: 5, Informative

    For christ's sake! I'm a subscriber and get to tell these clowns when they're about to post a dupe. So not only does Taco not bother reading any articles posted the previous day, he doesn't even bother reading emails telling the idiot he's about to post a damned dupe! What's the point?!!

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