  Was this just another shot aimed at the Unix/Linux crowd? Is
Microsoft wallowing in juvenile pettiness or did it just make a
practical decision? Could the installed base of IE for Unix be
too low to justify supporting the platform? Inquiring minds want
to know, so I donned my best Sherlock Holmes overcoat, grabbed
my pipe, and hit the phones.  Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get
much from Microsoft– a strange version of the Mafia’s “omerta”
code of silence seems to have settled over Redmond. Nobody was
willing to talk about the sudden disappearance of IE for Unix.
I did get a few comments from a PR flack – the computer
equivalent of “move along, there’s nothing to see here.”
Apparently it was removed “because the low customer demand for
this download did not justify the resources required for
continued development” according to Waggener Eddstrom spokesman
Nate Bucholz.  Why was the customer demand so low? Was it
because the product was truly awful? If so, why didn’t Microsoft
improve it like the Windows and