Microsoft Ends IE on the Mac

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.

Sigh

[Anonymous Coward]

So here I am, obsessively refreshing Slashdot, as we do, and what do I see at the top of the page? Ya sure, I've got mod points, no I haven't meta modded lately. What ho, free day pass?

So I see a big blank page, thanky adblock plus, hit the continue to free day pass link, and what I see? Bright red dupe. Oh wait, but this time with trolling in the janitor's comments!

Hotness. So this is what being a Slashdot subscriber is all about? I'm sold.

Cancelled TWICE?

[JonTurner]

It's bad enough MSFT cancelled it once, but to do it twice, why that's just cruel.

This just in...

[Billosaur]

Microsoft no longer to support IE for Apple [slashdot.org]

In a related story, Apple IE users will no longer be supported [slashdot.org].

And in business news, Microsoft announced it will discontinue support for IE on the Apple platform [slashdot.org].

Thank you and good night.

Two corrections here...

[jht]

First of all, this is a dupe from Sunday. Nothing new to see here. Move along. These aren't the droids you're looking for.

Secondly (and more important): IE for the Mac was an entirely different product, with a different codebase and a different rendering engine. While IE for Mac did have an occasional vulnerability (typically patched pretty quickly), it was at the time a more standards-compliant browser than its distant Windows cousin.

Unlike IE for Windows, IE for Mac was simply an application. No low-level stuff, no rendering engine used by the system (like IE Win and, for that matter, Safari/WebKit for the Mac), no ActiveX compatibility, no nothing. Other than the lack of pop-up blocking (which wasn't a common feature in any browser yet), IE was a pretty decent product. Most Mac users used IE, and were pretty happy with it - it had versions for the old Mac OS, and a spiffy Carbonized version for OS X). When Apple announced Safari, though, the writing was on the wall for IE Mac - why keep building a browser that earns no revenue and doesn't even help draw users to other Microsoft products? Just to get a few more MSN pageviews by people too lazy to change their default homepage?

Nah.

Re:This just in...

[BushCheney08]

So, anyone know when IE6 for Mac is coming out?

Re:Cancelled TWICE?

[Pope]

Mac IE was so bad, they had to cancel it twice just to be safe!

Infinite Loop

[lbmouse]

Wonder if Neowin will start posting slahdot [neowin.net] dupes and then someone from slashdot can start posting the Neowin dupes that are dupes, etc.

Re:suggestion

[mopslik]

let me add my idea

Here's an even easier idea that the editors can try out, patent-free:

• Click "Old Stories" to reach the Search Slashdot page.
• Type "IE Mac" into the search bar.
• Behold the power of searching (second result).

Two negatives make a positive, correct?

[rolfwind]

So IE work on the Mac must be continuing!

Not again!

[roman_mir]

So let me get this straight. They ended IE support of Mac, then they restarted IE support for Mac and then they ended IE support of Mac all over again and all of this within the course of 2 days? Sneaky bastards!

Re:Sigh

[mkw87]

What was funny for me was that I left work with my browswer open to slashdot, and at the time the last story was yesterdays post of this. I came in, sat down, hit refresh, and virtually the same damn article was still at the top.......I was very confused.

my IE on Mac support ended

[psbrogna]

when I installed Suse. I'm not exactly all broken up about this.

Re:suggestion

[sydneyfong]

Only on slashdot would somebody pay for the "priviledge" to do work that editors are supposed to be paid to do.

Meanwhile, CmdrTaco continues playing WoW...

Re:from the-dupe-dept.

[tomhudson]

Also, when they first saw the story, maybe there were *no* posts?

Lets face it, it takes a few seconds to hit "reply to this", write your "Hey dummy, its a dupe!" and hit submit - especially since the server is probably responding to 50 people doing it all at once - its getting slashduped.

Besides, what did you expect - its Troll Tuesday and the editors want to play too.

IE on Windows

[sbirnie]

If they would only stop supporting IE on Windows - then we'd ALL be safer!

Dialog at 7:30 in the morning

[Qbertino]

Jules: 'Why did you post that dupe? Again.'

Slashdot Admin: 'What?'

Jules: 'Do I look like I'm stupid?'

Slashdot Admin: 'What?'

Jules: 'Do I look like like someone who needs to be told everything twice?'

Slashdot Admin: 'What?'

Jules: 'Don't you understand what I'm saying? What country are you from?'

Slashdot Admin: 'W...? What?'

Jules: ' "What"? "What" ain't no country I ever heard of. Do they speak english in "What"? '

Slashdot Admin: 'What?'

Jules: ' Say "What" again. SAY "WHAT" AGAIN! I DARE YOU, MOTHERF*CKER, I DOUBLE DARE YOU. '

Vincet: 'How do you read our submitions and the articles posted?'

Slashdot Admin: 'W... w... we ... we don't actually.'

Jules: 'So you think we're stupid?'

Slashdot Admin: 'What?'

*BLAM!* *BLAM!* *BLAM!* *BLAM!* *BLAM!* *BLAM!* *BLAM!*

Re:It makes you think.

[krewemaynard]

You're story didn't get rejected...They're just holding out till Beatles-Beatles submits it.

Re:from the-dupe-dept.

[Flammon]

Should be:

from the yeah-umm-sorrry-about-that-my-bad dept.

Oh wait, that would be a dupe dept [slashdot.org]