![]() ![]() ![]() One of the jokes in the industry is about how long will it take for Gates and Ballmer to take their ball and go home," he said.Īpple officials weren't immediately available for comment. "With this decision, we may be seeing the first steps to pulling out of the Mac platform altogether. However, Enderle isn't convinced that Office development will continue. "We will definitely continue to support Internet standards," he said. Microsoft will continue to develop a version of its Office suite for Macs and its Virtual PC for Mac, Laver said. Many site developers develop purely for Internet Explorer as it is the dominant browser worldwide. The decision could cause concern for Mac users who use Internet Explorer to access sites that aren't accessible using other browsers. It has improved performance with faster page load times. Microsoft's operating system and browser are very closely coupled, and now that Apple has developed its own browser, there's no reason for Microsoft to continue development, he said. Internet Explorer 5 for Mac is the best browser from Microsoft to open old web pages. If they'd continued to produce a Mac version, it would have been a very unique product," said Rob Enderle, a San Jose-based analyst at Forrester Research Inc. "We anticipated this, ever since they announced there would be no more stand-alone versions. ![]()
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