Talk:Macintosh Business Unit

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Hi Alistair,

I saw you reverted my edits. I'm not too bothered other than to say the information I put is not speculation. The MacBU has ceased development on Internet Explorer and has cited Apple's development of Safari as the reason.

--Neil.

No one disputes that IE Mac development has ceased (a fact which is already covered adequately in Internet Explorer for Mac).

However saying that IE Mac development ended because of Safari is incredibly dubious. You are aware of the five year agreement between Apple and Microsoft that ran from 1997 to 2001. Is it just coincidence that after releasing new versions every year since 1996, they last released a significant update (one that didn't consist solely of bug fixes and minor updates to support OS features) in May 2000? AlistairMcMillan 22:49, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

Also I'm sure it is also just coincidental that by the time we would have expected a new release of IE Mac, the United States v. Microsoft case appeared to almost be over with a settlement agreement in sight (although it did drag on for years). AlistairMcMillan 22:56, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

Would not Adobe/Macromedia devote more resources to the Apple software?

[edit] Better title suggestion

I suggest we move this article to "Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit", in order to be more descriptive and clear what it's all about. Anybody disagree? Peter S. 22:48, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] mac specific apps

I changed it to say that it's the largest developers of macintosh-specific software, because other companies develop software that runs on the mac that have more than 180 people working on it (Adobe, Blizzard, etc.), but whereas photoshop, WoW, etc. are cross-platform, some of Microsoft's apps like Office 2008, Mac Messenger, or (formerly) Internet Explorer for Mac, have a version that works on windows and a separate version that's built to utilise certain features on mac OS X rather than just porting the windows version. (IE Mac Messenger makes use of the system-wide spellchecker and has separate independent windows where windows live messenger uses one window and simulates other windows, Microsoft office seems hell-bent on adopting aqua, more-so even than apple, etc.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by !!!Chris!!! (talk • contribs) 07:21, 12 April 2008 (UTC)