Apple and Microsoft: Can this divorce be saved?

ZDNet | at | by Mike

There's probably a deeper meaning to Microsoft's recent announcement that it will no longer develop Internet Explorer for Macintosh, blaming Apple's release of its own still-in-beta browser, Safari. Maybe Steve Jobs will talk about this today during his keynote at Apple's annual developer conference. But I won't hold my breath.

I wonder, for example: Which company led this dance? Did Microsoft tell Apple it had better come up with a browser because IE for Mac would be going away? Or is this Microsoft's response to Apple's cheeky decision to do its own browser? My guess would be the former. But whichever is correct, the implications concern me.