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Mac OS X 10.1 Puma, X 10.2 Jaguar, X 10.4 Tiger (PowerPC) and 1 more.

Mac OS 8.0, 8.1, 8.5 Mac OS 8.6 Mac OS 9.0 Mac OS 9.0.2 Mac OS 9.0.3 Mac OS 9.0.4 Mac OS 9.1 Mac OS 9.2 Mac OS 9.2.1 Mac OS 9.2.2 and 10 more.

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Initial versions were developed from the same code base as Internet Explorer for Windows, however later versions diverged, particularly with the release of version 5 which included the Tasman rendering engine.

As a result of the five-year agreement between Apple and Microsoft in 1997, it was the default browser on Mac OS before it was replaced by Apple owned Safari web browser.

Internet Explorer remained available for the Mac OS until January 31, 2006.

No major updates had been released since March 27, 2000 aside from bug fixes and updates to take advantage of new features in Mac OS X.

Internet Exploreris property of Microsoft Inc., Updates: Internet Explorer for Mac Updates.

Hope this helps anyone in the future who has this same type of problem.

All you can do in either Firefox or Safari is to change the User Agent to one of the IE choices, but that may not work for websites that require IE features that simply do not exist for Macs.

If you really need to access such websites then you would have to run Windows on the Mac.

Windows on Intel Macs There are presently several alternatives for running Windows on Intel Macs.

Follow instructions in the Boot Camp documentation on installation of Boot Camp, creating Driver CD, and installing Windows.

Boot Camp enables you to boot the computer into OS X or Windows.

Parallels Desktop for Mac and Windows XP, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, or Windows 7.

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Parallels is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.

VM Fusion and Windows XP, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, or Windows 7.

CrossOver which enables running many Windows applications without having to install Windows.

VirtualBox is a new Open Source freeware virtual machine such as VM Fusion and Parallels that was developed by Solaris.

It is not as fully developed for the Mac as Parallels and VM Fusion.

Note that Parallels and VM Fusion can also run other operating systems such as Linux, Unix, OS2, Solaris, etc.

There are performance differences between dual-boot systems and virtualization.

The latter tend to be a little slower (not much) and do not provide the video performance of the dual-boot system.

See MacTech.coms Virtualization Benchmarking for comparisons of Boot Camp, Parallels, and VM Fusion.

Except for Crossover and a couple of similar alternatives like DarWine you must have a valid installer disc for Windows.

You must also have an internal optical drive for installing Windows.

Then, from the Develop menu, choose User Agent, then Internet Explorer.

However, if the site has specifically been written using code for Windows clients, that wont work.

Youll have to use a PC, or use a virtual PC on your Mac using Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop, VMWare Fusion, or Sun VirtualBox.

Matt.

I have a server I have to access at work that only wants me to use IE (which is two of the four letters in EVIL).

I use an older version of Opera (9.6.4) and that works fine for me to do what I need with it.

Dont use the new versions - they dont work like the old one does.

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