On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 09:13 AM, B. Eric Bradley observed: > I don't use Premiere myself, but I am concerned that this (coupled > with M$ pulling the plug on IE for Mac) smacks of the beginning of a > trend.
I pretty much agree with Jerry about Premier, but he didn't address IE. What hasn't been pointed out by a lot of the observers is that Mac IE wasn't really killed; it was rolled into Microsoft's new MSN for Macintosh, which is not a free product. They're doing the same thing with IE for Windows in that newer versions will only be available as part of operating system upgrades costing $100 or more. I think the IE discontinuation was pretty much to be expected, now that Microsoft has been anointed by the Justice Department as the winner of the browser wars. They used their market dominance to win the war by giving away the product for a few years to bleed all the competition. Now they're earning back the money they invested. It's a nice example of how to take advantage of a monopoly. They stole the browser market fair and square. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
