Tuesday, October 07, 2003

Jericho: "My Beef with Microsoft"

As most of you know, I'm a Mac user from way back. I love Machintoshes. I love their simplicity and Apple's stylistic pursuits have usually produced PCs that are works of art!
For the most part, I have never been an "Anti-Microsoft" Mac guy. I've never seen the need. Microsoft makes Internet Explorer - my preferred web browser. They make Mac Office, usually the Mac version gets features the Widows versions get later. It's kinda fun.
But, recently, Microsoft has started to slack. I first noticed this when they kept producing new versions of Frontpage for the Windows platform, but not the Mac. I really like Frontpage, I really wanted better versions for the Mac.
Last week, I went to Microsoft's website to see if I had the latest version of IE. Microsoft has a great area on their site called Mactopia. I jumped on and found that my year old version was indeed the latest. That seemed odd. I looked at the FAQ and found this bit:

I hear that Microsoft will no longer develop Internet Explorer for Mac, is this true?

Yes. In our commitment to the Mac platform and our Mac customers we our focusing our development efforts on MacBU products like Office for Mac, Virtual PC for Mac, MSN for Mac OS X, and Messenger for Mac.


WTF? Why must Microsoft find new ways to screw up things? They have something nice and they go out of their way to mess it up. Next, they will stop selling Mac Office all together and just sell Virtual PC so that we all have to buy the Windows version of Office. Bloatware over an emulator - yummy!


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