Microsoft to stop making Mac browser

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SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Microsoft announced it will no longer develop versions of its popular Web-browsing software for Apple Computer's Macintosh system, saying Apple's own browsing software is a logical choice for Mac users.

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[Anubis]

wow MS said something intellegent

 

[RyanM]

Microsoft practically owns Apple anyways.

 

[notfred]

No big loss. Safari is a better browser than IE5 for the mac anyway.

 

[MazerRackham]

Safari rocks the house. IE has been dead on X for a long time now....

 

[Nitemare]

That affects like 3 users?

 

[gsaldivar]

That affects like 3 users?

Were you referring to the number of Mac users using IE, or the number people using Macs?


Oh, nevermind - I'll bet those two numbers aren't that far apart these days...


hehe

 

[pukemon]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
That affects like 3 users?

Wow. That many?

 

[notfred]

I think it's funny that people think that nobody uses Apple computer because thy only have 5% market share. In a nation with 100 million computer users, that's 5,000,000 Macintoshes.

 

[RyanM]

Originally posted by: notfred
I think it's funny that people think that nobody uses Apple computer because thy only have 5% market share. In a nation with 100 million computer users, that's 5,000,000 Macintoshes.

That number continues to dwindle though. I predict 1% market share by 2006, and Apple being relagated to being a full-time music service by 2010.

My world is such a happy place.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: MachFive

Originally posted by: notfred
I think it's funny that people think that nobody uses Apple computer because thy only have 5% market share. In a nation with 100 million computer users, that's 5,000,000 Macintoshes.

That number continues to dwindle though. I predict 1% market share by 2006, and Apple being relagated to being a full-time music service by 2010.

My world is such a happy place.

It's hovered around 5% for years now...

 

[RyanM]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: MachFive

Originally posted by: notfred
I think it's funny that people think that nobody uses Apple computer because thy only have 5% market share. In a nation with 100 million computer users, that's 5,000,000 Macintoshes.

That number continues to dwindle though. I predict 1% market share by 2006, and Apple being relagated to being a full-time music service by 2010.

My world is such a happy place.

It's hovered around 5% for years now...

No it hasn't. It's been slowly dropping ever since MS began making more stable OS's and since the processing speed gap between Macs and PCs has begun to become so far apart.

Final Cut Pro will see an x86 version. I can FEEL it. And as soon as that happens, you'll hear Apple's death knell.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: MachFive
Final Cut Pro will see an x86 version. I can FEEL it. And as soon as that happens, you'll hear Apple's death knell.

Why the hell would Apple release a product that would kill thier company?

 

[kami]

Originally posted by: MachFive

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: MachFive

Originally posted by: notfred
I think it's funny that people think that nobody uses Apple computer because thy only have 5% market share. In a nation with 100 million computer users, that's 5,000,000 Macintoshes.

That number continues to dwindle though. I predict 1% market share by 2006, and Apple being relagated to being a full-time music service by 2010.

My world is such a happy place.

It's hovered around 5% for years now...

No it hasn't. It's been slowly dropping ever since MS began making more stable OS's and since the processing speed gap between Macs and PCs has begun to become so far apart.

Final Cut Pro will see an x86 version. I can FEEL it. And as soon as that happens, you'll hear Apple's death knell.

While FCP is nice, I can work just as well with something like Vegas Video 4.0b or Avid Xpress 3.5. FCP isn't the be all, end all for video editing. Besides, it is made by Apple isn't it? It'll never see the light of day on a PC.

 

[RyanM]

Originally posted by: kami

Originally posted by: MachFive

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: MachFive

Originally posted by: notfred
I think it's funny that people think that nobody uses Apple computer because thy only have 5% market share. In a nation with 100 million computer users, that's 5,000,000 Macintoshes.

That number continues to dwindle though. I predict 1% market share by 2006, and Apple being relagated to being a full-time music service by 2010.

My world is such a happy place.

It's hovered around 5% for years now...

No it hasn't. It's been slowly dropping ever since MS began making more stable OS's and since the processing speed gap between Macs and PCs has begun to become so far apart.

Final Cut Pro will see an x86 version. I can FEEL it. And as soon as that happens, you'll hear Apple's death knell.

While FCP is nice, I can work just as well with something like Vegas Video 4.0b or Avid Xpress 3.5. FCP isn't the be all, end all for video editing. Besides, it is made by Apple isn't it? It'll never see the light of day on a PC.

I dunno. I say that half-kidding, but at the same time, with the number of screw ups that Apple has had in their history, I could see them at a board meeting...

Jobs: "You know how much money we could make if we sold a version of Final Cut Pro on PC?"
Some random intern: "Won't that kill our company?"
Jobs: "SILENCE, NONBELIEVER!"

::Jobs proceeds to pull a lever, sending the intern down a trapdoor towards the incinerator::

 

[gsaldivar]

It's hovered around 5% for years now...

Sorry, no amount of wishful thinking would make that true...


"...Apple may be diversifying its product portfolio, the efforts seem to be resulting in a more of a rearrangement of the existing Mac user base than a real increase in market share...According to statistics from Gartner/Dataquest, Apple's market share has been on a steady decline:

In 1997, Gartner pegged Apple's worldwide market share at 3.2 percent, where it remained through 1998. A slight increase to 3.3 percent in 1999, thanks to the original iMac, was nullified by a decrease in 2000 to 2.8 percent. Market share decreased again in 2001 to 2.5 percent..."

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[gsaldivar]

It gets better...


"...In the first quarter of 2000, Apple and Dell were in a head-to-head battle for dominance in the U.S. education market. Dell, who at the at time had 22.6 percent of the market saw steady increases in its market share growing to 34.9 percent in the latest research numbers given to MacCentral by market research firm, International Data Corp. (IDC).

In the same period, Apple's market share fell from 20.2 percent in the first quarter of 2000 to 15.2 percent in the most recent quarter of 2002, reaching a low of 12.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2001..."


By my math, it looks like Dell has nearly triple Apple's share of the education market - and more than a third of the total..

Source

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
That affects like 3 users?

Make that 7. The 4 guys in Multimedia Publishing here use Macs. What's sad is that the state system is setup so that they have to use IE to fill out their timesheets, and because IT had us all update to 5.5 they have to load up a Windows emulator to do it. How messed up is that?


P.S. Apple will never be as well-bought as any of the other companies until they make a product that's nearly as cheap to get as most of us can build custom systems for

 

[LethalWolfe]

What's interesting about this is the reason MS is reportedly pulling the plug on IE for Mac. IE will no long be a stand alone program. Which, I assume, means it will be built into Windows. Which brings back memories of that whole anti-trust stuff that we might remember from a few years back...

And a quick blurb about market share... Market share shows the percentage of people who purcahsed a product, in the case a Mac, w/in a given time period. The percentage of Mac users is closer to 10% or 11%.


Lethal

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: MachFive


I dunno. I say that half-kidding, but at the same time, with the number of screw ups that Apple has had in their history, I could see them at a board meeting...

Jobs: "You know how much money we could make if we sold a version of Final Cut Pro on PC?"
Some random intern: "Won't that kill our company?"
Jobs: "SILENCE, NONBELIEVER!"

::Jobs proceeds to pull a lever, sending the intern down a trapdoor towards the incinerator::

And again and again and again, Apple is a hardware company; they're losing money on nearly all of their software. FCP for the PC would hurt them so much, that any additional money it took in would seem like pennies on the dollar.

 

[StageLeft]

Good. Apples are for uber-gheymers anyway!

 

[Eug]

Ironically, a new version of IE 5 for Mac came out today.

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by: LethalWolfe
What's interesting about this is the reason MS is reportedly pulling the plug on IE for Mac. IE will no long be a stand alone program. Which, I assume, means it will be built into Windows.

According to the rumors I've read, it will be part of MSN, not windows.

 

[Tab]

Heh, Mac cant live forever. I've never had a BSOD with Windows XP and my nforce2 mobo. Looks like microsoft did something right

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Tabb
Heh, Mac cant live forever. I've never had a BSOD with Windows XP and my nforce2 mobo. Looks like microsoft did something right

Apples are stable cause they don't run anything