MSN for Mac = IE6

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in Mac Software edited January 2014
If that's true, is there any way to extract the IE6 browser from the MSN install package and use it?

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  • Reply 1 of 16
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    What do you mean by "it's true"? It has a massively updated engine compraed to that of IE 5.x, but otherwise, it's just a totally different kind of software. So there's nothing to extract either. Unfortunately.
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  • Reply 2 of 16
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Nope.



    Not IE6.



    Can't be extracted by any means yet discovered.
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  • Reply 3 of 16
    jonathanjonathan Posts: 312member
    it is a new rendering engine though, note popup menus are now native aqua....
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  • Reply 4 of 16
    mrmistermrmister Posts: 1,095member
    "it's just a totally different kind of software."



    Really? MSN is not a web browser? I thought that was its core function. My mistake.
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  • Reply 5 of 16
    Quote:

    Originally posted by mrmister

    Really? MSN is not a web browser? I thought that was its core function. My mistake.



    MSN is like AOL. You have to pay a subscription fee and dial into its own service in order to use its software. The browser is completely useless otherwise.
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  • Reply 6 of 16
    mrmistermrmister Posts: 1,095member
    I know--I was being a bit sarcastic. My point is that it is obviously a web browser, albeit tethered to MSN. Sadly I suspect that tether is unbreakable.
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  • Reply 7 of 16
    ? does anyone have a screenshot?
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  • Reply 8 of 16
    danieldaniel Posts: 50member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Dog Almighty

    ? does anyone have a screenshot?



    Check out the tour at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/msn/



    Daniel
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  • Reply 9 of 16
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Jonathan

    note popup menus are now native aqua....



    Eh?



    Not judging from MS's tour.







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  • Reply 10 of 16
    danieldaniel Posts: 50member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Brad

    Eh?



    Not judging from MS's tour.











    They are in the actual product, the pictures in the tour must be old.



    Daniel
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  • Reply 11 of 16
    ringoringo Posts: 329member
    They probably aren't native Aqua... as far as I know, only OmniWeb and Safari actually have real native widgets.
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  • Reply 12 of 16
    loganlogan Posts: 284member
    BRAD- I use MSN program on my PC, you do not have to pay a subscription fee, and the program works fine.



    Logan
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  • Reply 13 of 16
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Logan

    I use MSN program on my PC, you do not have to pay a subscription fee, and the program works fine.



    That's more the proof that the MacBU is really screwing people over. Try launching MSN on your Mac. You can't do anything without a subscription.
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  • Reply 14 of 16
    cubedudecubedude Posts: 1,556member
    Unless you're coming over from a PC with an MSN account, why would you switch from another provider to Microsoft?
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  • Reply 15 of 16
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Logan

    BRAD- I use MSN program on my PC, you do not have to pay a subscription fee, and the program works fine.



    Logan




    I know what mean. When I got Windows XP, MSN came with it. You don't have to sign-up for anything, but you have to enter your or create a Hotmail account, so it can do all the preference stuff. I don't know what it does on Mac and I don't care to install it either. If it is Microsoft it will just create more problems.
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  • Reply 16 of 16
    MSN sucks..... If they offered it for broadband maybe that would be better... but MSN sucks... so does IE....
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