Why did they actually discontinue IE for the Mac (years ago) or did they never release IE for Linux. One of the reasons IE is losing market share (relatively) must be that people who are coming from other platforms, tend to stick with the browser they like. IE 4 was great at the time (and won the browser war with Netscape). I do not understand why they (MS) seem so fearful of embracing the open standards/multiple platform approach.