


If they'd continued to produce a Mac version it would have been a very unique product," Rob Enderle, an analyst with Forrester Research in San Jose, Calif., said Monday. "We anticipated this, ever since they announced there would be no more stand-alone versions. Microsoft's development of IE for Apple's computers was driven by a five-year agreement that has now lapsed, Laver said. desktop marketing manager Neil Laver said Monday. "Browsers are now a generally established piece of the OS and it doesn't make sense to keep developing them separately," Microsoft U.K. Microsoft will no longer develop IE as independent software, only as part of its Windows operating system. Microsoft will stop developing versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser software for Macintosh computers, saying that Apple's Safari is now all that Apple needs.
