Was Redmond's decision to dump IE for the Mac an anomaly? Or a step in the unraveling of the pair's tenuous partnership? After Microsoft dropped the bombshell last week that it is ceasing all work on future Internet Explorer releases for the Mac, industry watchers have been wondering aloud what's next for the dynamic duo. It's an interesting time to speculate, on the eve of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference next week. For its part, Microsoft is swearing up and down that it won't off Office for the Mac. And a number of Microsoft watchers seemingly believe the Redmondians — pointing to Microsoft's growing paranoia over OpenOffice and StarOffice as a big reason why it won't dump its only non-Windows version of its desktop office suite.
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