MS ends support for Internet Explorer
updated 08:20 am EST, Mon December 19, 2005
MS ends IE support
Microsoft last week quietly announced that will officially by Macworld UK. The company updated its website, saying that the IE browser was support for 30 months following the announcement in 2003 that the company would discontinue development of IE: "In June 2003, the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit announced that Internet Explorer for Mac would undergo no further development, and support would cease in 2005. In accordance with published support lifecycle policies, Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31st, 2005, and will provide no further security or performance updates." The company also said that the browser would no longer be available for download from the Mactopia website after January 31, 2006.
Microsoft recommends that Macintosh users migrate to more recent Web browsing technologies such as Apple's Safari, which is bundled with its operating system.
Recent studies show that Apple's Safari Web browser has continued to grow in popularity, currently holding 2.78 percent of the Web browser market--up 1.22 percent since December of 2004.
Support?
12/19, 08:50am reply
WHAT security updates?
alterbentzion
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So is anything new?
12/19, 08:54am reply
Has Explorer been touched since 2003?
Open-sourcing would be nice ;)
dave a
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LOL
12/19, 09:00am reply
Yah M$ was founded on open source so I bet that will happen :P
Liquidity X
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i'm so upset
12/19, 09:24am reply
I haven't used IE since 2002, if then.
ibugv4
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Shocking!
12/19, 09:30am reply
You mean there WAS support?!
nemanirc
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carbon
12/19, 09:31am reply
you know, I'm no fan of M$, but I will say that Explorer was one of the first Carbonized apps out there- certainly the first from M$. Never liked it much, I used iCab in the early days of OS X (even public beta), but it did seem that the M$ mac IE team were trying. Hope they all found good mac jobs elsewhere!
Glasspusher
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Once a fine browser...
12/19, 01:12pm reply
For its time. It would have been nice if there had been updates until the end of this year. But as things stand, this news is non-news.
kw99
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A possible reason...
12/19, 01:39pm reply
Once this new Microsoft browser is released, I bet it'll have some type of proprietary security feature which will lock out Safari and all other browsers from being useful on the net (for banking, shopping, etc).
- Mark
sc_markt
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Re: a possible reason
12/19, 05:06pm reply
Once this new Microsoft browser is released, I bet it'll have some type of proprietary security feature which will lock out Safari and all other browsers from being useful on the net (for banking, shopping, etc).
What new browser? And how would a browser lock out another broswer? I think you're thinking about server software. Now that could lock out Safari nice and easy (hey, it does it now!).
testudo
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*yawn*
12/20, 09:54am reply
Why do the media centers think this is news? I don't know any Mac users using IE anymore. And the ones that do, deserve what's coming to them.
Lord.Schwarzung
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