Apple today announced that more than 1 million copies of Safari for Windows were downloaded in the first 48 hours since the free public beta was made available on Monday.
Safari 3 is the world’s fastest and easiest-to-use browser, and is available as a free download at http://www.apple.com/safari/
Safari 3 is the fastest browser running on Windows, rendering web pages up to twice as fast as IE 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2, based on the industry standard iBench tests.
Safari 3 supports all modern Internet standards including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and Java. Safari updates are delivered seamlessly through Apple’s Software Update, and the first update for Safari for Windows Public Beta which fixes some early reported bugs was released last night.
Safari 3 for Windows requires Windows XP or Windows Vista, a minimum of 256 MB of memory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor.
Apple’s Safari Web browser for Windows:
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Why do I get the feeling that Apple will eventually release all of their software on Windows, eventually shipping Mac OS X in a shrink wrapped box for all Intel processors. I just keep getting that. I also have a feeling it will happen sooner rather than later if the iPhone is extremely successful.
Safari is also the world’s least compatible browser, least compatible with the Windows look-and-feel and the most likely to crash. Other than that, it’s great!
At the D Conference, Jobs mentioned the following things.
1. Post PC devices are becoming the happening places
2. Desktop is still relevant But not from the OS point of view. But from the interactive/thick client apps that are couple with online services like iTunes and iTunes Store. Hence the OS is irrelevant.
so, Apple is focusing on the Post PC devices( iPod, IPhone ) and the ” interactive thick client Applications that connect ‘Online services, Post PC devices”.
Great strategy!!
Reality Check is the world’s least effective troll/astroturfer. Other than that, he’s great!
What we wanted was reality cash.
Your bogus checks are not accepted here.
Oh yes, and . . . Death to Windows!
I want to see something like Google Gears for Safari.
Google Gears ( on an equivalent from Apple) on Safari( Windows, OS X, iPhone)
This will provide an offline storage for web2.0 apps and will truly make Safari a new platform. ( windows will become irrelevant)
The windows look and feel is horrible so Apple should make their products look like crap? If you want to talk about not being compatible with standards perhaps you should give IE a look. I’ve got a great book on css and almost every section in the book talks about how IE isn’t compatible with web standards. So, much for your argument but thanks for playing. Damn, now I fed a troll.
@reality check:
When IE can pass the ACID test, then let’s talk about compatibility.
Safari is also the world’s least compatible browser, least compatible with the Windows look-and-feel and the most likely to crash.
What part of B E TA did you miss?
Safari is the most industry standard compliant browser on the market. If isn’t compatible with some sites, it is because they are written to non-industry standard MSFT “standards”.
INDUSTRY standards are better than proprietary (MSFT) standards.
I wonder how many of those downloads are Mac users trying it out in Boot Camp or Parallels, or are installing it on their work computer. As opposed to actual Windows users…
It’s compatible with standards, so if you build site for only IE, then don’t blame Safari for not rendering it right.
So even if most of them are Mac users, that’s how hype is built and it spreads to other Windows users. Like they say “Charity begins at home”. Mac users will also buy the iPhone and show it to none mac users that will go “Wow” and buy theirs. The iPod started that way. Remember it was only for mac users to begin with.
I use it for Parallels with XP at work. I am a bit pissed off that Safari for the windows world is faster than Safari for OS X. Even via Parallels. Also, it has yet to crash on me in Windows.
As if 1 million downloads in 48 hours doesn’t say enough. You just let me know if there is a better browser for Windows.
I tried to cash a Reality Check once.. it bounced!
Then I looked more closely at it, and it was in pesos.
🙁
Apple’s support of open standards– if successful on a large scale– will ultimately make M$’s proprietary approach a thing of the past. Usability will matter most, not file types. In that case, I agree with AP’s post above– at some point, Mac OS could be released for everyone. That said, though, I believe it will take a VERY long time to come to that. The current surge in personal tech means Apple could very well place a copy of OS X is hundreds of millions of hands. If that happens, it’s a short step to release OS X for everyone.
More likely, though– if Apple gets that big in hand held devices, the OS Tipping Point® will have also become a reality.
I’m not so impressed if this 1,000,000 Safari for Windows downloads is mostly Mac users who also use Windows.
– – But at least its a start.
Oh, and by the way @AP, anything that gets rid of Windows is generally ok with me, so I see OS X for all Intel and PPC generally a good thing.
Complacency…it’s hard to get up from a druken stupor.
(MDN word….”front”. Embarrassment in front of the whole world.)
I think that it is feasible for Apple, if they can make enough money on Consumer Electronics (iPod/iPhone) that they can then license OS X to other CPU manufacterers without having to worry about killing their hardware sales/profit. On the other hand, I think a lot of the gains in Mac sales can be attributed to the “halo” effect from the iPod/iTunes experience. If the same “halo” effect comes from the iPhone, why bother licensing OS X when they can sell that many more Macs and keep the profits on the hardware as well? It’s good to be in the drivers’ seat!
i think balmer and gates just shit bricks….when they heard about safari for windows. complacency….can do wonders for the other side.
Mr. Peabody says “I’m not so impressed if this 1,000,000 Safari for Windows downloads is mostly Mac users who also use Windows.- – But at least its a start.”
Yeah, I’m not impressed that Mac sales are up 36% over last year, if it’s due to Windows users buying Macs for themselves!
ballmer´s brain is going to crash!!!
That over only two days a million people were prepared to download beta software is startling.
I bet MS is worried. The noses of some Firefox users–some of them really do tend towards fanaticism over that damn browser–seem to have been put out of joint, too. The folks at Lifehacker, who seem to fall into that category, are mumbling about extensions–what else? It’s all they’ve got to say. They’ve posted a slew of extensions that they say will add functionality Safari has that Firefox lacks.
I mean, I’m a happy user of Firefox on Windows (though it sucks on the Mac) but extensions are not the answer to everything as the fanboys seem to think. I’m not all that happy with the notion of loading a browser up with third-party bolt-ons whose coding may be of indifferent quality, and which may, and quite frequently do, break when the application is updated. (The damn things are kludges written in web languages–XML/CSS/JavaScript–anyway.)
And it’s not just that Firefox lacks this or that. It’s slower than Safari, and the usability is not so good. Moreover, its text-handling is poor. You can’t fix that with an extension.
Postcript isn’t rendered at all.
With TrueType there’s “miscalculation of space required for italic, bold & underlined fonts resulting in overlappping text”.
http://clagnut.com/blog/1854/
It can’t handle hyphenation properly.
It also makes a pig’s ear of Microsoft’s flashy new OpenType fonts in Office 2007. If you’ve got those fonts onboard take a look at a page that uses them in Firefox:
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=47&aid=78683
Mozilla’s new graphics engine, called Cairo, is far better, but that won’t come along until Firefox 3.
Safari is still beta software on Windows, but it already looks promising. It will shake things up a bit all round for sure.