Internet Explorer?

[LastLine]

Ok so dumb question, where can I find Internet Explorer in OSX? I'd rather avoid having to load up classic everytime I need to use IE for whatever reason.

 

[croshtique]

Download it here, but get it quick...

 

[LastLine]

Suppose the upside of that is that htey may start putting in better support for Safari in their sites 😉

 

[MacsRgr8]

Suppose the upside of that is that htey may start putting in better support for Safari in their sites 😉

That's what we are all hoping for! 🙂

 

[LastLine]

That's what we are all hoping for! 🙂

Something else that occurs to me is that they're jumping on the x86 idea. Though I don't know enough to say how likely that is 😕

 

[mduser63]

Something else that occurs to me is that they're jumping on the x86 idea. Though I don't know enough to say how likely that is 😕

Microsoft has publicly stated that they will support Intel Macs with both Virtual PC and Microsoft Office. Whether or not they'll release free updates or require paid upgrades to newer versions remains to be seen. I have a feeling that Office will work just fine in Rosetta, but VPC really needs to be made in a native version, possibly even a complete rewrite or port of the PC version for it to work well. Of course, if they do that, it should be possible to make it so that emulation in Virtual PC is just about native speed because no CPU emulation will be necessary.

 

[jhu]

Suppose the upside of that is that htey may start putting in better support for Safari in their sites 😉

the upside should be that sites will be more standards compliant, not necessarily "better support" for safari.

 

[ChrisFromCanada]

Microsoft has publicly stated that they will support Intel Macs with both Virtual PC and Microsoft Office. Whether or not they'll release free updates or require paid upgrades to newer versions remains to be seen. I have a feeling that Office will work just fine in Rosetta, but VPC really needs to be made in a native version, possibly even a complete rewrite or port of the PC version for it to work well. Of course, if they do that, it should be possible to make it so that emulation in Virtual PC is just about native speed because no CPU emulation will be necessary.

Just think the irony of emulating x86 inside of emulating PPC on an x86 mac.

 

[mduser63]

Just think the irony of emulating x86 inside of emulating PPC on an x86 mac.

🙂As good as Rosetta may be, I just can't imagine that all that instruction translation is going to make for acceptable performance of the PPC version of VPC. MS already has a PC/Windows version of Virtual PC, so hopefully that will help them at making an x86 version of Mac Virtual PC.

 

[Plymouthbreezer]

Firefox...? 🙄