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Re:Modern Browsers Ship by abhijitr on Friday February 18, 2011 @12:51PM (#2236439)
After IE6, a good chunk of the team was repurposed to work on the next-gen presentation technology for Longhorn, which eventually became WPF/XAML.

Another part of the team went on to build some ill-fated re-skinnings of IE, such as MSN explorer.

So yes, the Longhorn train wreck was a big reason for the sabbatical, but not the only one.

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Re:Modern Browsers Ship by DougBTX on Saturday February 19, 2011 @05:51AM (#2238850)
Amusingly, MSN Explorer is still available for download, and comes with IE 5.5: http://explorer.msn.com/install.htm

Pentium 90MHz processor or faster!

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