Microsoft is porting Internet Explorer 4.0 to UNIX

Microsoft has cancelled their original plan to start porting InternetExplorer to UNIX with the 3.x version of the browser and has moved ahead toversion 4.0. In a announcement posted to the Microsoft Web site on Friday, the company says that they are "committed to delivering an Internet Explorer 4.0 for UNIX beta in Fall 1997 and best-of-breed final release in Q1 '98."

Microsoft is pledging to deliver a "majority" of the features in the Win32version of IE 4.0 to UNIX, including Dynamic HTML, Java support, Site andChannel Webcasting with push technologies, HTML 3.2 support, Cascading Style Sheets, VBScript and JScript, and Secure Sockets Layer 3.0. ActiveDesktop will *not* be included in the initial release although Microsoft islooking into adding it in a future version.

Internet Explorer 4.0 will initially be available on Sun Solaris 2.5. Microsoft also plans to deliver support for HP-UX 10.x and other UNIX flavors--not yet announced--in the near future.

Also of note: Microsoft is not farming this work out to other companies butrather is developing it in-house