From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 5 17:45: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D5614CEF for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 17:44:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA19417; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:03:23 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from jdy.apana.org.au(203.3.126.133), claiming to be "jdy" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdG19415; Mon Sep 6 11:03:13 1999 Message-ID: <05ba01bef801$6b75f1a0$857e03cb@jdy> From: "Doug Young" To: "Bill A. K." Cc: Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 10:47:36 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I use & support Microsoft software in many office desktop situations and it does a quite acceptable job, however it seems it takes some time before sufficient "features" have been debugged for an application to be reliable. MSIE4 is OK now, but remember its been around over a year. The present MSIE5 has only been out a few months, consequently its still quite buggy. I've used it in Win98 / Win2000 (don't have any choice there) since its been available and its still not what I'd call usable. Even if you managed to get Microsoft to port it to FreeBSD it would be the MSIE5 version, and apart from the probability that most BSD folk would refuse to install it, why would anyone want more Microsoft "new improved features" ?? -----Original Message----- From: Bill A. K. To: FreeBSD Questions Date: Monday, September 06, 1999 10:26 AM Subject: IE for FreeBSD >Hi, > I was wondering if anyone here would like to get together with me and >see if we can bug Microsoft to release a version of Internet Explorer for >FreeBSD (or even Linux) BTW they have it for Solaris and HP-UX currently > >Anyone here who would interested in going with me on this, let me know. > >:) > >Bill >billieakay@yahoo.com > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message