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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