[Ti] [OT] Microsoft to quit web browsers for Mac

[Michael Bigley]

>SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. said Friday it will no longer develop versions of
>its popular Web-browsing software for Apple Computer's Macintosh (news - web
>sites) system, saying Apple's own browsing software [OS X-only Safari] is a
>logical choice for Mac users.

IE was first out of the gate to support OSX (and of course Omniweb), 
but Camino and now Safari  have completely outpaced IE development. 
This is not a loss for Apple; keeping their mac browser current was 
part of the lawsuit settlement. Once that time limit was up it made 
little sense for M$ to keep engineering a free product.

I believe Apple started Safari development at a time when a truly 
high-performance browser was definitely needed. Camino/Chimera was a 
pleasant surprise for such an early rev. So now we get two great 
browsers! Which is one more than M$ users have! And the recent 
release of OmniWeb shows promise that we will actually have 3 GREAT 
browsers to choose from.
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Mike Bigley                Maineville, Ohio
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