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by Encosia 4254 days ago
+1 for IE's touchscreen support. I keep holding out and using Chrome on my laptop for a few extensions and all of the bookmarks/passwords I have synced over the years, but IE makes Chrome look absolutely kludgy and clunky when it comes to performance and UI these days. It's a shame IE doesn't have a more approachable extensibility model...
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Does IE run on anything but Windows these days?

(Edit: Doesn't look like it. Alas.)

Not that I've tried that hard, but the most recent IE that I can run under WINE (Crossover Mac) is IE 8.
You could always scrounge up a copy of IE5 for Mac ;)
So what? Safari is also stuck in Apple land.
Perhaps he means "I don't run windows, can I run I.E. on anything else, like it used to run on Solaris or under Wine"

Some people do exist that have Linux desktop / Android smart device as the only computers we can change.

Yes, that makes it harder to try Safari, too.

Firefox, Chrome, Opera and others are not so picky about which operating system they run on.

Safari is available for OS X and Windows.
The Windows version was silently killed last year.
Safari on Windows has been abandoned; it’s now 3 versions behind.
And since that includes security patches, probably best to avoid it.