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Letter: Letters : Standard bearers

Published 20 September 1997

From John Bray

by e-mail

Can I remind Barry Fox that Microsoft’s plans to port Internet Explorer to
the Mac does not make it a world standard
(Forum, 30 August, p 46). There are
many people who look at Web pages using Unix or other mainframe systems for
which Microsoft solutions are unavailable.

Leaving aside the technical merits of the Internet Explorer versus Netscape
war, at least the latter writes software for a true cross section of world
computing environments.

Issue no. 2100 published 20 September 1997

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