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Microsoft drops Mac IE

The minority of Mac users still browsing with Internet Explorer need to consider moving to another browser very quickly, as Microsoft plans to discontinue support for IE beginning Dec. 31.

Oh happpy day, now if we could only get them to drop IE for Windows that would be a REAL improvement (as if anyone uses IE *version 5 because thats all that has been available in years* on their Mac with options like Safari and Firefox anyway).

The lack of support for IE is unlikely to be an issue for Apple users, most of whom already use alternatives. The only potential difficulty could lie with some sites that have been designed to work with IE only.

Most of us in these parts have been railing for years that sites that do this - design for a particular browser rather than a W3C standard - should all be kicked in the shin anyway. May such sites just wither and go away, along with the shortsighted/ignorant IT "managers" that spawned them.