Apple: Safari Is Now Available To Windows Users Also
On Monday, Apple Inc. launched beta version of Safari Web browser for Windows-based PCs, competing against the two popular browsers Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox. Safari is available on only Mac until now.
Like the other web browsers Safari for Windows free of cost. It can be downloaded from here.
It is an interesting move by Apple , and we will have to wait and see whether this will be able to pick up user base competing the most popular Internet Explorer and growing Firefox.
‘What we’ve got here is the most innovative browser in the world and the most powerful browser in the world,’ Apple CEO Steve Jobs said during his keynote speech at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
‘Safari, which was released a few years ago for Apple’s Macintosh computers, has captured about 5 percent of the world’s browser market share with more than 18 million users’ Jobs said, ‘Internet Explorer, which is built into Windows, has a 78 percent share, while Firefox has rapidly climbed to gain about 15 percent of the market’.
Jobs claimed Safari performs twice as fast as its competitors.
I just have download it and installed it. It looks as good as it is on a Mac. But there were some reports of problems already just with in one day of the release.
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Comment by dotnetnuke on 13 June 2007:
Safari, is good browser, i was looking for this news:) I will try it soon.
Comment by yael on 13 June 2007:
Thanks for sharing this information. I’ll probably download it and try it soon
Comment by Vijeesh on 13 June 2007:
Avoid installing Safari for Windows. There are reports of security vulnerabilities in Safari for Windows. At least wait till Apple releases a patch or something.
Comment by Dan and Jennifer on 13 June 2007:
Cool, thanks for the heads up Everton.
I was wondering what our site looks like on Safari!
Have an awesome day!
Dan
Comment by Gili on 13 June 2007:
Tried it on Vista. Works ok, not really faster than Firefox, but for some reason crashed twice. Security is still an issue as Vijeesh indicated.
Comment by Jamdo on 14 June 2007:
Yeah, all the designers in the office were giddy about this news yesterday. Damn mac users think they own the internet!
Comment by inox on 14 June 2007:
I’ve tried it on XP, but I has some bugs: sometimes it exits for no reason apparently…
Comment by Everton on 14 June 2007:
@dan
Sanketh posted this one, not me!
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Comment by mv3gp on 15 June 2007:
it will take time to compete with Internet Explore and FireFox unless they partnership with some gaint just like FireFox did.
Comment by Rob O. on 17 June 2007:
I’m baffled as to why Apple would even try to compete in the browser field, but one of my astute pals thinks this is to attract content & app developers for the iPhone’s browser.
As for the whole speed thing, why the emphasis on load speed when the real bottleneck is rarely the browser, the OS, or the hardware - I’ve found that the broadband connection pipes and the content senders are much more likely to be the culprits if your browsing is sluggish.
Comment by narissa83 on 27 March 2008:
I love safari! i had firefox and was having problems with pdfs and emails not sending. That is now all in the past. the only downfall I have found is there is no password manager. sxipper was really nice to have, but i guess i am just being lazy.