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  • I could actually use an updated IE on the Mac so I don't have to use windows virtualization to test if my web design works with the lemming crowd.

  • He is dumb.

  • His reason should be:

    "Internet Explorer is too gay and sucky to bring to such an awesome platform"

  • its too suck for elite platform.

  • Don't use IE on a Windows box - definitely don't need it on a Mac; good call Ballmer.

  • Nobody with a mac WANTS IE!!!!! Keep your shitty, slow, unreliable, insecure IE.

  • haha the best internet explorer was IE6. That shit was fast and amazing. IE7 and IE8 weren't worth downloading. IE9 has still a little way to go to match the standards of chrome and firefox

  • AKA, "No one on Windows uses our shitty browser, so why would tech savvy Mac users want our shitty browser? We aren't going to take the time to make IE work on a Mac just to have 13 people worldwide use it!"

  • I'll put IE on my beautiful smooth-running MacBook Pro. Right after I put a dollop of shit on this delicious filet mignon.

  • @superDev323 You would need IE to download FF or Chrome after new windows installation.

  • @iTube4ux Not really, Calculator and task manager and a few other programs have a built in browser in the 'help topics' ;)

  • IE is fine .....its the fact that there is no standards in browser rendering engines thats the problem. - I'm using firefox ...only because I like firebug and fox-tab.

  • Nobody needs that crap.

  • Once you bring IE to at least the standards of a 1999 web browser, then people might want it on mac...but probably not

  • @WeEatBrainz The funny thing is, I was using IE on a Mac in 1999. xP

    The last version of IE they brought to the Mac was IE 5, I think. It wasn't a port - they built it from the ground up. And as I remember, it wasn't bad.

  • Innovation energy ... this bonehead has surely GOT to be joking :-/

    Fair enough, IE9 is a decent browser but it's taken them years just to get it to a level where it's finally CSS2 compliant - something that most non-IE browsers have been for 8-9+ years since. But then with javascript, every new release of IE breaks something that worked fine in previous versions. IE is a (bad) joke a browser, made by a sad excuse for a company whose idea of "innovation" is copying other peoples ideas: badly!

  • LOL! who the hell wants IE? Its the slowest, stupidest, and probably worst Internet Browser :)

  • @MarineGuild Nice. I 2nd this.

  • LOL, who the f..k wants Internet explorer, imagine that peice of shit in the launchpad, the whole macbook design would be screwed if i had that program on my desktop.

  • IE was for Mac once, so enough of that... :P

  • I dont really like how MSFT slacked when IE6 was released, but i can tell you this, ive never crashed so much with Google Chrome and Firefox, IE9 is much more stable and have better memory usage.

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  • innovation in Windows??? please someone show him the Gate(s). 

  • You people should try to forget the past and try the new IE9. You are all probably using Firefox or another flash crashing webbrowser, not knowing that IE9 uses a hardware accelerator.

  • What Innovation?

  • LOL, this is where I finally agree with Ballmer XD I'm content with: Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Camino, Opera anything other than the browser from Hell....Internet Explorer o_0!

  • One of the reasons i install GNU/Linux on peoples machines is so they cant use IE

  • @CactusTrio ACtually, IE is safer than FireFox.

    Fact is actually that sure IE was crap back in the day, but IE9 is basically one of - if not the best - browsers ever made.

    And guess what: I'm a Mac user. However, Safari still kicks ass too.

  • @FeeLtheHertZ ie is holding back web developement. Plus been a firefox user all the time, forced to use ie for a week (ie9) Virus the next day

  • THANK YOU! steve finally a move in the right direction!

  • no hay ie para Mac porque podría desestabilizar el sistema, jajajaj así de simple!

  • firefox is faster,but ie is safer i think....that's what i heard

  • What I heard was

    "We understand we have the worst browsing software, so we won't bother trying to recreate it."

  • @superDev323 People that know that there are other browsers indeed don't want IE, but there are still people (like my father) that don't want to learn about other browsers, because he's 65, turning 66 in a half month, and he thinks he's to old to use other browsers.

    Other people can also have their reasons, like being able to do their work, and such things.

    But IMO, IE sucks, but is getting better than it's older versions.

  • Chrome & Firefox are the best browsers

  • @kf932009 Chrome and Safari are the best browsers. Firefox is a dinosaur.

  • @ComradeSlice I wouldn't say that. Safari is best on a Mac any day, but Chrome and Firefox are definitely the best cross platform.

  • until this day, IE 9 is the only browser uses 100% hardware acceleration (.)

  • @MrArabSon true... check out how checkboxes look (example given facebook, take a good look) Plus IE isn't ported to OS X because it'd stand out as the most crashing browser in the platform.

  • @gyzmopr

    hmm, Facebook is designed for IE8, so in this case, or any other website, click F12 to enter developers mode and chose IE8 browser mode. for the crashing point, I aggree with you if you were talking about IE7 not IE9. :)

    BTW, as a web developer I use IE, FF, Opera, Chrome, Safari to check my layout and I can tell that IE9 is the best IE I used ever.

  • @MrArabSon My whole point is that we should just abide to standards, not browser compatibility. Browsers that abide to standards should just compete on functionalities like add-ons etc. The only thing I'd use from IE9 would be the hardware acceleration. But then I'd need an awesome video card cause business laptops generally fail with video card's performance... add to that IE9's demand of an awesome video card and there goes the edge.

    I tested IE9 in a two year old Dell laptop... FAIL

  • lololol MS IE?? lolololol Seriously? lololol Does anybody still use that junk?

  • @FirebrandNIRE by far most people do, especially in professional enviroments. As a web developer I have to constantly take that into account because a fair number of my clients are still on IE6. The reason for that is because they have company web applications that were made specifically with IE6 in mind, and it would cost too much money to upgrade it.

  • @Eruonen bullshit. IE complies with both the W3C standard and their html tags. So if you just focused on doing it solely for W3C standards you wouldn't even need to worry about the client in the first place. there was absolutely no need to follow along.

  • @gyzmopr Are you joking? I always produce standards compliant code and have it checked both by automatic tools and colleagues. If you've ever tried to develop a somewhat big/complicated web page you'd know you're full of shit. Usually it's minor bugs, but a lot of my clients don't even want minor bugs.

  • @gyzmopr alright just show me the big complicated web page you are talking about where you are using W3C html code that is completely W3C validated that won't work in IE but will in other browsers. SHOW US. 

  • Ballmer looks like a mental patient

  • @superDev323 Yeah, microsoft is extremely biased, I will agree...but I saw it done on PCGamer so I read into it a bit:) No harm no foul bro.

  • @superDev323 Actually...I read it on PCGamer's website....Also, I'm not clinging to IE. Don't be like every other assuming tard on youtube and make assumptions about me. I use Chromium. I am simply stating what I read from a website that has a pretty good rate of reliability.

  • @superDev323 Actually, a recent benchmark showed that in WINDOWS based browsers, IE9 RC is the fastest for overall speed.

  • @superDev323 Because the RC of the ninth version pwnz.

  • Innovation? They look to the Mac to see what Microsoft is going to copy next.

  • who even want IE on the mac

  • I.E. was on the Mac once upon a time. that lasted a whole 6 months then apple killed it.

  • Here is a reason as to why a mac user such as myself would like a mac version of IE, I am a web developer and most people sadly still use IE and every time I want to see a site I'm working on in IE i hafta fire up parallels and its a big pain in the ass.

  • @Thycid

    nowadays most pple use Firefox, IE has so many problems and isnt as stable as Firefox, i dont think pple on macs dont use safari either

  • @r3volution4eva I have a mac, I HATE safari. I use firefox 100% of the time. Unfortunately the stats still stand. I have sites i've made that get over 100K hits a month and the Google Analytics are still showing about 65% of users using IE. The number IS falling, it used to be higher, but a majority are still using IE because they aren't knowledgeable and simply use what comes with their OS so I as a web designer unfortunately still have to be sure the sites look okay in IE :-(

  • @Thycid Aw, that must suck

  • @vaibzzz123 :-(

  • @r3volution4eva meh. I used safari, its pretty good...

  • @r3volution4eva i must agree with Thycid, there's still a majority of IE users. Every statistic says that. Though they all also agree that the numbers are going down... luckily ^^

  • @Sjums around 20 percent Firefox sounds good to me :D

  • ie sucks everybody's dick

  • It is probably not possible to port it to the Mac... You would have all the Windows garbage in the bottom for IE to work.

  • I was a windows user, and still i didn't use IE!:D

  • @thegenius204 I AM a pc user and who the fuck uses it? CRRROOOOOOOOOMMMMEEEEe

  • @Zyziz

    H?

  • @iamthegroovester H-ell yea :D

  • @superDev323 IE9 Pisses all over any other browser.

  • I wish Microsoft would just piss on apple and not port anything to their closed peice of shit platform if you can call it that. crapple.

    Solution = Linux + Windows Home built PC. Only way to go.

  • @superDev323 Because there are a few websites here and there that are still stuck in the past and require IE to work properly... ugh...

  • @superDev323 I use it for FTP only, otherwise, Safari

  • he should say: "Even if we made an Mac version of I.E, no one will download it."

  • @500ncb There is a funny story about IE5 for Mac, which was "free of charge", and actually was more standard compliant and way better coded than the Windows version (PNG implementation/better rendering engine, so forth). Not many (I asume) knows today, that there was a Mac version in the first place, but it seems like at that point, just after IE5, they decided to go "Windows only". And have kept that strategy since.

  • @ytvoice1 i did know when steve jobs just went back at apple they used ie as default browser. when steve jobs announced that at the keynote, the arena booed real loud. but when jobs said there is another option, people cheered. not sure which version was that. but putting mac vs pc aside, i've heard too many windows users hating ie. there only reason they still have majority market share is that a lot of companies and schools dint bother to download firefox or chrome.

  • @500ncb Firefox and aspecialy chrome 2 shit browsers. Firefox not so much but chrome are you fucking Joking.

  • @teslaglobal can you explain why chrome and firefox are shit? sorry im a safari user so i dint know. however i have used chrome and firefox a bit, chrome definitely much faster than ie and firefox, but i've also heard web designers use firefox to test their websites because it has stricter security. please enlighten me :)

  • IE is the new Netscape. And that's coming from a guy who took a long time to switch to Firefox.

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  • If Ballmer ever bothered to research what real consumers thought of m$ productd/services he would become a used car salesman. At least he'd be clued up enough to see the abuse coming.

  • @superDev323 lack of market choice. Funny how as soon as there is choice M$ use money prizes to lure everyone back.... and anyone who actually went back did it for the money. And that was only short lived :D

  • LOOK AT THE BRIGHT SIDE AT LEAS IS A REFERENCE POINT FOR OTHER BROWSERS

  • internet explorer was the best browser for the mac before safari came out (a LONG time ago)

    things have changed so much since then!

  • IE = Intelligent Espionage 

  • wanna hear a joke?

    internet explorer.

  • IE needs a lot of work to compete with Google Chrome and Firefox.

    Safari is as crappy as IE. It's unstable and crashes a lot.

  • @emad2222 you know the problem with operating system creators creating Web Browsers is that they can't create a stable one. Apple Mac OS - Safari (crappy). Microsoft Windows - Internet Explorer (Shitty)

  • IE is a piece of patchy crap. A bit like Steve's hair, lol

  • @Paulwander WRONG, I have the IE9 RC and it rocks. But it wasn't released when you were posting the comment.......

  • Who doesnt love a terrible experience?

  • lol "innovation"

  • I prefer safari, but they're all good

  • Safari is crap

  • everyone has to admit, IE sucks balls. chrome is a friggin sweet browser its fast to even if you have a shitty mac

  • Better answers are:

    "Because Mac users don't WANT it!" (duh)

    "Because... it's ... CRAP!?"

  • who gives a shit about mac users

  • People who are social. ;)

  • people who are homosexual

  • Yes, perhaps.

  • im glad to see that your not a big fag and trying to pursuade me that macs are half decent, i like that quality :)

  • What the? xD

  • your a good bloke man, good bloke

  • Studies show that homophobes are probably gay. You should come out of the closet, because only assholes hate gay people.

  • When the fuck did I say I hate homos? You freak

  • By implying homosexuality is bad you become a homophobe.

  • No retard that means jack shit that's like saying I'm aracnophobic because I think spiders are ugly

  • Look who's never heard of the definition of 'homophobe'.

    Look, until you grow up you are only going to look like an ass, so I suggest you give up.

  • sorry dude for not wasting my life looking up the definition of gay shit and so you know i dont give a single shit about what you think of me

  • You said it yourself, homophobia is gay.

  • I hate homos so what?!

  • by the way:

    in Mac OS X 10.0 - 10.3  IE was the standard-browser...

  • Because Apple was making Safari.

  • hybridthehobo your are a fucken jerk. I have a computer with a duo core processor that runs at 2.5 Ghz. Yet it takes my computer about 4 minutes to boot. Right now I am having more problems with IE surfing the internet. It just loves to tell me the page can't be displayed error. Why do you think you have to update the system every other day. It takes 5 minutes to shut the system down. Just view Andy Rooney Bill Gates. Mr. Rooney hits the nail on the head about Microsuck!

  • IE is dying. IE sucks at my school and my house. Every teacher I took a survey I asked would you rather have IE on our comps or firefox. Our comps are cheap ass dells. Firefox won big time. Out of 30 teachers I asked only 8 said IE. 22 said firefox. IE sucks bad.

  • dells are awful anywhere. my sis got a dell cputr from 06. IT HAS A PENTIUM 4 with windows professional.... IT SUCKS

  • Steve Ballmer is a dummy. He thinks windoze 7 is simpler. He must be blind. It took me 45 minutes to download windoze 7 rtm. When I burned it to DVD it was a little over 3 gigs on the DVD. It took a while to get it to work on the computer computer didn't want to see the DVD drive.

    It took over 3 hours to install the OS. IE had a lot of problems surfing the internet. Even know the page loaded it would give you errors. I wonder if Steve Ballmer uses or ever tested windoze 7.

  • Download? That is discusting you fucking illegal cunt!

    Sarcasm aside, You're talking bullshit. If your computer doesn't see the DVD drive, it's your (or the computer's) fault.

    IE does not give errors when surfing the web, mostly anyway.

    I like linux, mac and windows, and I'm just listing facts.

  • IE does give errors when surfing the web. You're just used to them.

  • As shit as IE is i doesn't give errors unless you are a n00b

  • That is completely untrue.

  • thats nice but i didn't really want your opinion

  • Learn the difference between opinion and fact.

  • Dont start with me faggot

  • I already have, homophobe.

  • nwc

  • Northwest Carolina?

  • im not yank

  • So what to you mean by NWC?

  • (Also, sounds like English isn't your first language...)

  • @altlandf

    1. You have shit internet.

    2. OMG a big installation file for an OPERATING SYSTEM.

    3. Slow install? Your computer is shit.

    4. IE is fine.

  • I use IE and it's better than Safari.. WTF is that name, Safari. WTF!!!!!!!

  • WTF is that name, IE? WTF?

    My comment makes about as yours.

  • Internet Explorer Microsoft's web browser

  • I know. Please read the original context of the comment before assuming you know what it means.

  • hahaha you FAIL youtube made u piss

  • That is the most relevant comment ever!  Rock on broseph!

  • When I look for a web browser, or any software for that matter, I judge it on many things: reliability, security, ease of use, speed etc. The name really doesn't come into it.

  • Why would any Mac user want or need Explorer? I say to Ballmer: Thank you for sparing us from the crap you inflict on your own PC customers.

  • who still uses IE?

    I have firefox. google chrome is also good.

  • I have a mac and I don't want IE anyway.

  • I personally like Firefox the most because of the amazing plug-ins, but more add-ons = more RAM used.

    Speed-wise, there is a slight lead with Chrome IMHO, but it's not obvious w/o stopwatch or two comps side by side.

    I've only used Safari on iPhone/iPod. Skyfire on WinMo pwns though. The only thing is that Skyfire needs a PPC or smartphone with at least 256 MB of RAM to run smoothly. Still quite cheaper to get a decent PPC vs an iPhone though :)

  • the fastest is chrome

    mozzila is kinda buggy with its latest updates and takes up a lot of memory but still is good

    opera is pretty damn good

    microsoft should stop developing their browser, cause no ones using it and it sucks

    safari 4 is the best with java and pretty fast

  • i agree chrome is the fastest. l luv it ^_^

  • noobs who dont know what a web browser is and keeps every thing on its default settings. they use ie

  • Ima using Opera its one of the best browsers

    1.Opera <---------- 1 of the best browsers (Thats my decision )

    2.Firefox <------- Very Good

    3.Google Chrome/Safari <---- Quite GOOD

    4.Internet Explorer <------ SUCKS

    thats how it should be

    but anyway why not use every browser in this list

  • why do I need to sort bookmarks when I can just use Spotlight on my browsing history?

    What scores the fastest on the SunSpider Javascript test?

    What scores 100/100 on the Acid 3 test?

    The answer to both is Safari....

  • you don't need to sort bookmarks because you are a mac idiot. You only use safari to waste time like an idiot and download porn. Maybe thats why you like safari so much, because of its delete history feature.

  • I'm a mac idiot am I?

    I hold a BSc in Computer Science. A lot of that was learning a real OS. UNIX. Interestingly enough, OSX is a front end on UNIX. Up until last year I ran exclusively Windows Vista and Linux at home. I then hacked OS X Leopard to run on my Toshiba Laptop (I bought my copy of Leo and hacked it myself). I now have a MacBook, run OS X, Windows XP (via VMWare and Boot Camp), and Linux (via VMWare). All 3 are good, but Linux and OSX are more secure by default.

  • Oh and by the way, you CAN sort bookmarks on Safari. Click on show all bookmarks and it opens them in coverflow mode, you can then drag them to where you want them.

  • you mac idiot

  • are you retarded all broswers can remove history

  • Safari is shit just like IE. Firefox sort of worth it. Opera feels good man.

  • i use safari!! is great i find it better than firefox and im in windows yesh safari kick ass but have some errors some times but errors are normal i love the way they show history like s slideshow and the top sites!!! kick ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! right or im wrong?

  • Google Chrome is much faster

  • wow chester u talk a lotta shit

  • You're an ass with anger issues. Go see a psychologist.

  • im glad internet explorer doesnt come with macs now. it sucks bad enough on windows the os it was designed for then who would think it would be any better on mac

  • Internet Explorer has only one good use: to download Firefox.

  • and safari ; )

  • haha true and safari

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  • @Meloku171 Lmao.

  • @Meloku171 i did. Haven't ever looked back.

  • @Meloku171 That's the only thing i used ie5 for, the only thing i used ie 6 for, and the only thing i used ie7 for. If ie8 comes with win7 then thats the only thing i used it for as well. then I used firefox to download linux :P

  • HAHAHA Yeah, Internet Explorer is an "innovation". Windows is an "innovation".

    More like Mac OS X is an innovation and Windows is a dirty broken copy of OS X lol. Go Mac!

  • Or more like Unix is an innovation, Windows tried but failed and Mac couldn't try, so they took Unix.

  • steve ballmer is horrible at least bill gates was nice about everything and even had the nerve to go on stage and compliment apple and have a friendly conversation with steve jobs. steve ballmer continues to bash apple and think microsoft is superior

  • it would be a waste of time for them to bring IE to the Mac... its a really sucky browser and no one who has a Mac (including myself) would use it when we have much better browsers like Safari and Firefox... I doubt that many PC users use IE for their browsing

  • It is a fact that by putting IE on a mac you'd depreciate the value of the said mac by 200 percent. Shit software on a great computer always makes an epic fail.

  • Nice one ;)

    IE is the worst browser ever.

  • i'm sure the mac dont want that crappy virus and spyware filled ie anywhere near it

  • To be honest, Internet Explorer has seen better days. It is one of the biggest reasons why there are so many Viruses on Windows. Since 2006 it has been continuing to loose market share. I believe the last time i checked it was at or around 70%. I know people think that's no big deal, but think about it. That's more than 20 percent in only a couple of years. I think that speaks for itself quite clearly. People are tired of using an old and out of shape browser.

  • ya, what about firefox or safari (it works on windows)

  • let's not forget the fact, that most of the people using IE (that 70%) don't even imagine that there can possibly be another browser. so, most of the "advanced" users already moved to firefox, safari, opera, maxthon, sleipnir and others.

  • why would we want ie? i dont know about you steve, but im going to go and chat with my buddy on ichat, then compose the next big song on garageband, and then make a keynote on iwork while watching youtube on safari and rocking out on itunes.

    Case closed

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  • sounds like what i do. ON MY MAC!