Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2006 20:33 schrieb Dan Kegel:
So evidently Microsoft was pushing the "Windows Everywhere" vision using partners like Bristol and Mainsoft, who licensed Windows source code.
(Fun facts: MS used Mainsoft to port IE 4 to Solaris: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1998/feb98/unixpr.mspx This evidently let them get a big government contract. The MS IE for Unix homepage still exists, http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/ A nice history of the port is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX )
Mainsoft (the company that also, by mistake, leaked the Windows sources) still offers and supports IE, part of Mainwin, for UNIX and Linux. In fact, Softimage XSI for Linux, which uses Mainwin, comes with IE 5.0 or 5.5 (Linux native). XSI for IRIX also came with IE.