AppleInsider StaffMicrosoft has begun to advise Mac users of Internet Explorer (IE) to switch to rival browsers such as Apple's Safari, according to a report by BBC News.
The browser itself will be removed from Microsoft's Mactopia site and no longer be available for download beginning January 31, 2006. Microsoft had been developing a version of IE 6/7 for Mac OS X before canning the project in June.
On its website Microsoft recommends that Mac users switch to "more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple's Safari".
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A single tear runs down my cheek...
"In other news, Microsoft officially announced that they will not support MS-DOS anymore".
i havn't used IE in a year. i kinda forgot about it's existance. This is a good thing. It will only encourage people to use Safari Camino and Firefox and which will encourage developers to fovus on them more YAY
And by "more recent", Microsoft means "better."
I actually think it's a pity there'll be no IE7 for the Mac, but only because it means I've got to use Windows to test out IE7 bugs on websites I'm developing.
And I've still got to use a couple of sites that only work in IE on Windows so the dreams of never having to use Windows again are still a dream.
With IE7 being WindowsXP or later it also looks like I'll have to buy a copy of XP too.
See, this is a bad thing!