From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 18 02:46:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA15996 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 02:46:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA15944 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 02:45:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0ybMTc-0001jr-00; Mon, 18 May 1998 11:45:00 +0200 Subject: Re: Internet Exploder inseparable from Windows? In-Reply-To: <19980513153257.I20153@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "May 13, 98 03:32:57 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 11:45:00 +0200 (SAT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.cityip.co.za/~wjv/ X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Johann Visagie Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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