Microsoft discontinued support for the product on Decemand removed the application from their Macintosh downloads site on January 31, 2006.
The browser was not included in default installation of Mac OS X v10.4 'Tiger' which was released on April 29, 2005. On June 13 2003, Microsoft announced that it was ceasing further development of Internet Explorer for Mac. However, no major updates had been released since March 27, 2000, aside from bug fixes and updates to take advantage of new features in Mac OS X. Internet Explorer for Mac remained available for download from Microsoft until January 31, 2006. Later versions diverged, particularly with the release of version 5 which included the Tasman rendering engine.Īs a result of the five-year agreement between Apple and Microsoft in 1997, it was the default browser on Mac OS before it was replaced by Apple's own Safari web browser in 2003.
Initial versions were developed from the same code base as Internet Explorer for Windows. Internet Explorer for Mac (also referred to as Internet Explorer:mac, IE:mac or Internet Explorer Macintosh Edition) was a proprietary web browser developed by Microsoft for the Macintosh platform. Caption = Internet Explorer 5.2.3 under Mac OS X 10.5.0
