OWA runs nicely, with full rich-text editing and message search, and the administration pages for MS Virtual Server also work pretty well. The resulting browser looks a little weird - almost like a Bizarro version of IE, with the slightly altered type and menu look of the X11 windowing system - but this bear can dance. Built on top of the Darwine version of the Wine Win32 API translation layer, ies4osx downloads and installs an official version of IE (you pick from v5, 5.5, 6 or 7) and then runs it inside the X11 environment on your Mac. Now there's another option for Intel Mac owners: ies4osx, a Mac port of the ies4linux package. Getting 'real' IE on the Mac, up until now, has meant OS emulation (Virtual PC), virtualization (Parallels/VMware), API translation (Wine/CrossOver) or remote access (RDC). No, not IE for Mac OS X, frozen in amber within Applications folders around the globe I mean IE for Windows, the hairy scary Active-X enabled browser that for better or worse represents a huge chunk of the web-surfing world.
If you're a Mac-based web developer, a sysadmin at SomeBigCo, or an Outlook Web Access user, you might find yourself needing to use MS Internet Explorer from time to time.
