According to Mozillazine, IE for UNIX has been discontinued by Microsoft. There’s no details other than the removal of links from Microsoft’s UNIX page, but the direct link to the download page still works.
According to Mozillazine, IE for UNIX has been discontinued by Microsoft. There’s no details other than the removal of links from Microsoft’s UNIX page, but the direct link to the download page still works.
I actually know nobody who has ever used that program. Not a person.
Do you?
I actually know nobody who has ever used that program. Not a person. Do you?
I actually used it, but it was more of a gee-whiz thing… I launched it a handful of times, but I wasn’t a *user* of it… I found it to be less reliable than NS 4.X on the same machine…
Okay, NS 4.X is unrealiable. And a program that’s more unrealiable than an unrealiable program is really really bad. So is everything from Microsoft (except Access).
I actually tried to download it from a UNIX box years ago (don’t remember which UNIX at the time). I do remember using Netscape and their download page would not appear. We went to a NT 4 Machine with IE and the UNIX download page was available.
We laughed for about a day on that one.
I never even knew that it exsisted… Oh well. I would have used Mozilla anyhow…
Yeah, who on earth would use IE if there is Mozilla which is just excellent and much more stable then IE.
Lovely IE 5 still sits on my HP-UX box and it performs better than the crappy Netscape 4.7x. Mozilla is too heavy mor my little 712/60, so I’ll stick with IE. And Outlook Express is included :-). They have both the same look as in Windows. Same flying papers animation when dowloading something. It was always amusing to see the look on other people’s faces when I launched IE on HP-UX. They didn’t know it exists.
There was even the Windows Media Player for Solaris. Could never try it, because I only had a Solaris/x86 machine.
I actually know nobody who has ever used that program. Not a person.
You do now. I used it on a sparcserver 1000E I used for a long time.
On the solaris machines at school it’s avalible, but it not readily accesable, and Netscape 4 is the default, although I’ve opted for Mozilla.
I just wish there were a more up-to-date version of Opera for Solaris available.
As is I just install Netscape 6 (the joys of users who cling to a name fanatically and won’t let it go) on our Sparcs here.
I wonder if I left this post at just the two top lines how many “Why not Mozilla is Netscape 6 but bettar!” comments I would get from people who have never had to deal with end users.
…I didn’t even know it existed. lol.
I installed it on a Sparc 20 running Solaris 7. All it ever did was segfault when I tried to start it. Needless to say, I didn’t keep it around very long.
IIRC, Sparc 20 is way under the minimum system requirements.
Regarding the slow performance of IE on UNIX, that was due to the win32 abstraction layer they used so that they didn’t need to re-write the GUI again. Personally, I didn’t like. If a company is going to make a browser or product for a particular OS, do it right the first time. They should have created a native, OpenMotif version or one based on qt. Personally they should have gone for OpenMotif to keep consistant Look’n Feel between the different applications.
… by one person, who just does it out of bloody-mindedness and an obsession that Netscape, and therefore Mozilla, is crap. Each to their own…
There a many good browser for UNIX/Linux, who needs IE? They stop it because it is inferior to Mozilla.
When Sun started pushing Netscape 6.0, there were a lot of articles saying that Solaris users prefer IE to Netscape 6.0, and the only reason why Solaris didn’t push IE was because it was made by Microsoft.
Never seen it though. Eugenia: if IE was available on Linux, would you use Linux more than Windows?
I am very mad at Microsoft now. Instead of making IE available for OSes like HP UX and Solaris, they could have made it for Linux, and then I would gladly use IE which I already use it in my Windows.
Mozilla crashes a lot, Netscape doesn’t support anything. But the latest Mozilla is very good, but I still need better support for Javascript.
At the time Microsoft was open to porting IE, Linux wasn’t a market big enough to justify a port. Right now, they aren’t open to making a port to any UNIX, other than OS X. Besides, Microsoft being very anti-Linux (because of GPL), you may as well forget about any possible port.
I used IE for Solaris a couple time and basicly switch to Mozilla. IE for Solaris was extreamly slow and rendered pages just as well as Mozilla does but Mozilla was quicker. I got the feeling that IE for UNIX was designed to run slow to make windows seem like it is a faster OS.
Let me guess: you are comparing old, long unsupported IE for Solaris with current versions of Mozilla, right? Besides, Sun contributed a lot to Mozilla’s Solaris port, something they didn’t do for the IE port. When IE for Solaris came out, from what I have heard from guys like Miguel de Icaza, it was considerably faster than any other browser for Solaris, include then unstable HotJava and Netscape 4.x.