It may be old news but I have just seen the 'farewell' posted by Steve Heap on his website. Some news about what he is planning elsewhere.

http://www.sidmouthfestival.com/

By the way, I have just changed over from Gates Explorer to Firefox as an experiment because Hotmail was so slow. Seems much better (except it seems not to allow RTF in Hotmail.....), and according to Tech posts here and elsewhere it is far less liable to be a target for malware. The mudcat site renders differently - so does SeeRed come to that. Back to the drawing board! Would seriously recommend people try it. Obtain from mozilla.com - and it is free. Just don't delete Explorer because Windows needs it to run even if you don't use it as the default browser.