Microsoft Ends IE for Mac 728
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.'"
I'm bummed. (Score:3, Funny)
Long live Safari and Firefox!
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What the? (Score:5, Funny)
What? (Score:5, Funny)
Time Magazine Cover (Score:1, Funny)
Thank you Microsoft, tis the season for giving!
Too bad Microsoft doesn't care as much for their own OS users...
Re:Confused (Score:3, Funny)
Chalk one up for truth in advertising. (Score:5, Funny)
Well, getting hacked *IS* exciting. Downloading antispyware updates would be a new experience for most Mac users.
At least they're honest.
Re:I'm bummed. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Microsoft admit defeat? (Score:3, Funny)
1) Bad browser for mac takes it to the knees.
2) While windows version is good and shiny...
Too hard to implement. cancelled.
Seems like a wast of time to me (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Interesteing Problems (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Interesteing Problems (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm bummed. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Interesteing Problems (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Speaking of Safari (Gap.com) (Score:5, Funny)
We're working on supporting Safari. Please check back soon.
Well, that's understandable. It can be a chore for retailers to support the web.
Maybe I'll wager $12 that GAP spent more money talking about and implementing the "we don't support Safari" message than it would take to get their site to support Safari. Who wants to take me up on that one?
Go ahead, let me know. Someone analyze their site and let me know what it'd take for Safari support.
Re:Now we can get rid of MacIE! (Score:1, Funny)
Go to Applications. Click on Internet Explorer.app. Command-i. Copy icon.
Go to Applications Click on Firefox.app. Command-i. Paste icon.
Done. Should be enough to fool the Microsoftians that gravitate towards the big blue E.
Re:I'm bummed. (Score:3, Funny)
If you want to be proud of Safari's ancestry, good for you. Just don't make the mistake of thinking that it means anything.
That's a good start! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'm bummed. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A casualty of the Intel transition (Score:1, Funny)
You've asked everybody? (I guess you missed my company. We're in the Fortune 500, so I would have thought we're hard to miss.)
Refactoring is the process by which you take perfectly functional code, and decide to "clean up" the API, break the code, spend eons re-debugging the code, and then realize weeks later you've spent dozens of hours making your code a tiny bit cleaner so it can accomplish the same thing.
If you're an incompetent programmer, perhaps. For the rest of us, refactoring is the process by which we clean up our interfaces to enable us to make changes much more easily. Instead of spending 1 week adding a feature and 1 week debugging the new mess, we spend 3 days refactoring the existing code to make adding the new feature much easier, 2 days to add the feature, and end up with cleaner code so it's easy to repeat the process again next week.
A scam was launched by these guys who labelled this process as EXTREME PROGRAMMING. They claimed you should re-factor more,
More? But you said nobody does it. Are you admitting (gasp) to refactoring, now?
and do it in pair programming. If you ever find a programmer who was subjected to this against his will, be prepared for some REAL vitriolic.
If you ever find a *person* subjected to *anything* against his will, you mean. That sentence has nothing to do with pair-programming, and everything to do with "subjected to against his will". Sex is great (trust me), but being subjected to it against your will is so horrible it's criminal.
Re:Interesteing Problems (Score:1, Funny)
The parent poster wasn't referring to sperm banks there chief...
Re:I'm bummed. (Score:5, Funny)
*ducks*
Re:MS gets wise (Score:3, Funny)
because, as everyone knows, a browser has to be integrated tightly into the whole OS..
You know, for all those features like ActiveDesktop, remotely invoked installation of dancing monkeys and weather widgets and so on.
I mean, how could anybody use a browser without these?
Re:Interesteing Problems (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I was on the MacIE 6 team when it got canned... (Score:0, Funny)