{"id":1247,"date":"2003-05-31T07:02:07","date_gmt":"2003-05-31T21:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/31\/no-more-standalone-ie\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:52:10","slug":"no-more-standalone-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/31\/no-more-standalone-ie\/","title":{"rendered":"No more standalone IE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14518,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.microsoft.com\\\/technet\\\/treeview\\\/default.asp?url=\\\/technet\\\/itcommunity\\\/chats\\\/trans\\\/ie\\\/ie0507.asp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/casoneroutegold-prod-bggfgca0dkaag8a8.b01.azurefd.net\\\/technet\\\/treeview\\\/default.asp?url=\\\/technet\\\/itcommunity\\\/chats\\\/trans\\\/ie\\\/ie0507.asp&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14519,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.daypop.com\\\/search?q=aol+microsoft&amp;search=Search&amp;t=w&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14520,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.zeldman.com\\\/daily\\\/0503c.shtml#monopolymoney&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260102144610\\\/https:\\\/\\\/zeldman.com\\\/daily\\\/0503c.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 23:47:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 15:07:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 11:34:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 11:34:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting little tidbit buried in a Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/treeview\/default.asp?url=\/technet\/itcommunity\/chats\/trans\/ie\/ie0507.asp\" title=\"Microsoft TechNet\">TechNet Q&amp;A session<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  As part of the OS, IE will continue to evolve, but there will be no future standalone installations. IE6 SP1 is the final standalone installation. &#8230; Legacy OSes have reached their zenith with the addition of IE 6 SP1. Further improvements to IE will require enhancements to the underlying OS.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very interesting, especially in light of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daypop.com\/search?q=aol+microsoft&amp;search=Search&amp;t=w\" title=\"Daypop search for 'aol microsoft'\">blogged to death<\/a> \\$750 million AOL\/Microsoft settlement that includes licencing IE to AOL for the next seven years (and possibly sounding Netscape&#8217;s death knoll). Makes me curious just how that&#8217;ll work.<\/p>\n<p>Also &#8212; does this also kill IE for the Mac? IE already hadn&#8217;t been updated for the Mac in ages, and with the proliferation of alternative browsers available out there for OS X &#8212; including Apple&#8217;s own Safari &#8212; has Microsoft decided it&#8217;s time to concede the browser war as far as the Mac platform goes?<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeldman.com\/daily\/0503c.shtml#monopolymoney\" title=\"Drop dead\">Jeffrey Zeldman<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also &mdash; does this also kill IE for the Mac? IE already hadn&#8217;t been updated for the Mac in ages, and with the proliferation of alternative browsers available out there for OS X &mdash; including Apple&#8217;s own Safari &mdash; has Microsoft decided it&#8217;s time to concede the browser war as far as the Mac platform goes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}