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Microsoft deploying work-to-rule for Mac browser? | |
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| Time: 06:25 EST/11:25 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Bill Roach | ||
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In the latest twist in the twenty five year long poker game between Apple and Microsoft, the impeccably reliable Nick de Plume of Think Secret suggests that Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit has halted work on Internet Explorer 6 for Mac OS X. Microsoft's formal five year commitment to produce software for the Macintosh ended last summer. It hasn't been renewed, but relations haven't been severed either. They're just getting distinctly tetchy: last year Microsoft pointed to lousy sales of Office for Mac OS X, while Apple has published its own browser and presentation program. And Microsoft's lack of support for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Thai and Hebrew continues to rankle many Apple users. (No, we haven't forgotten that one). | ||
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| #1 By 20 (24.243.41.64) at 2/11/2003 2:32:40 PM |
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Thai is right to left?
Not last time I checked. I have a Thai buddy who confirmed it is, indeed, left to right. It seems the Register has no limits to their lies and/or ignorance. As for right-to-left support, Windows supports it very well. Perhaps the problem is MacOS X, not Microsoft. |
| #2 By 20 (24.243.41.64) at 2/11/2003 10:46:25 PM |
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#2: um, sure. You'll note I said "perhaps" since I don't know the full extent to which Mac OS X does or does not support foreign languages includine Far-East languages (which are usually the most difficult).
And I would like to see those statistics, actually. |
| #3 By 2960 (156.80.64.132) at 2/12/2003 8:56:43 AM |
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No great loss IMHO.
And if MSIE 6 for the Mac is as bad as MSIE 6 for the PC, then it's discontinuance is a BENIFIT, not a loss. The best browser MS ever made was IE 5.01. It's all been downhill from there. TL |
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