I need the internet explorer for my mini mac, is there any compatible to install?

Question

There is a program at work that i need to use the internet explorer to access, but the mini mac is not compatible.  Is there a way to intall a compatible Internet explorer into a Mini Mac

Answer 1

There are two possibilities here:
1)  The program needs windows AND it needs internet explorer in order to interface with the pieces of windows that it needs.  Normally a browser forms a application environment which stuff runs inside, and well-behaved applications will run pretty much in any browser on any operating system.  But microsoft has other things that they have put into Internet Explorer that allow you to go THROUGH the browser and into the windows operating system below it.
2)  The program has only been tested in Internet Explorer on Windows, and so that's all anyone will vouch for, but it will run just fine in other browsers and other operating systems.
If it is situation #1, then the only way to run the application is to run windows AND IE.  This can be done on another computer running windows, by creating a BootCamp partition and buying and installing windows on it, or by buying and installing vmware or parallels and buying and installing a windows virtual machine on it.
If it is situation #2, what is necessary is experimentation.  Try to load the application url in various and sundry browsers and various and sundry versions of those browsers on your mac.  If you find a configuration that works, you can then lord it over the ignorant people who told you that it requires I.E.
Just a note if it DOES really require windows and I.E., which is that it may require some particular version or versions of windows and/or I.E.  In our case, the Crystal Reports ActiveX Viewer will not load in windows 7 if running in a non-Administrator account.  And our bank's online banking software won't run on I.E. 9 or 10.  (I've got to watch windows update like a hawk to untick the I.E. 9 update.)