You probably saw the news earlier that Microsoft officially released Internet Explorer 8 at noon eastern time today[archived]. You probably also know that there is no OS X version of the software because there hasn’t been an OS X version of Internet Explorer for several years now (even though it used to be the default browser of the Mac OS back in the day).
That being said, when I went to look at the actual Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 download page now that it is live, it still struck me as odd that there is no OS X version available (not to mention Linux version). Every other major browser out there is available for both Windows and OS X, even Apple’s own Safari. Sure, Google Chrome isn’t OS X yet, but Google keeps swearing it’s coming. So why no return of IE to OS X? A whole slew of their other software is available for OS X (see Microsoft’s Mactopia site), so why not IE8? Just a thought…
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