Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 11:45:00 +0200 (SAT) From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internet Exploder inseparable from Windows? Message-ID: <E0ybMTc-0001jr-00@ns.cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <19980513153257.I20153@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "May 13, 98 03:32:57 pm"
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > Take a look at http://www.microsoft.com/ie/unix/. I wonder what > they're up to. Towards the end of 1996 MS made a big noise about porting MSIE (3.0 at the time) to various Unix flavours. The final product was released a few months later than expected - so no surprise there. Remember that at that time, MS still viewed Netscape as a very real threat. Netscape's marketing machine kept touting a single Netscape feature as being its ace-in-the-hole when it came to Web browsers: Multi-platform support. Hence the response from MS. -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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