Windows users download 1 million copies of Safari
Safari was an early hit with Windows users, who have downloaded 1 million copies of the browser since Monday, according to Apple.
One million copies of Safari have been downloaded for Windows since Monday.
(Credit: Apple)CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the Windows version of the browser as a beta release Monday during his keynote speech at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Safari makes up around 5 percent of the browser market, trailing Internet Explorer and Firefox with its 18.6 million users, a figure Jobs used in his speech Monday.
Cynical colleagues at CNET wonder how many of those downloads were started by hackers and security professionals probing for weaknesses, which is probably a fair point. Nine security vulnerabilities have already been discovered in the Windows beta, and Apple released an updated version of the browser in the wee hours of Thursday morning to plug some of the flaws.
Still, there had to be more than a few downloads from outside the security community. The 1 million copies are of the initial beta release, tagged 3.0.
WE KNOW!
That's why it's in a testing phase to the public - TO TEST!
AKA BETA
Now report the issues dilligently and release version will shine.
how this loads the web pages at least 2x times faster than even
Firefox. Only drawback is one of my applications, the author is a
diehard MS user (probably because he is financially tied to IBM and
MS) and his apps won't work with anything but IE. His loss.
It was supposed to be faster than Firefox, but it was extremely slow at rendering html content. Even Apple's own site rendered at least twice as fast on Firefox than on Safari.
I don't know, I like the looks but it is way too slow.
almost exclusively. The only thing I miss is having the Address
field be a drop down. I like being able to drop down the address
list and see places I've typed in. I'm lazy and don't like typing
any more than I have to.
I've also had it crash a few times and lock up, but no more so
than IE.
It really makes me wish I had a Mac. It shows me how nice a UI
can be. I've been less than impressed with Vista. I rolled back
to XP Pro--which is getting really, really stale.
It is "anybody but microsoft" attitude that makes them cheer anything and everything apple does. And i am surprised that your editorial tea too has such a religious fervor for apple. Otherwise the way your team hypes apple and always tries to rundow microsoft there an be no other explanatiion for it.
It's not going to be my regular browser ... Firefox still safely holds that honour.
- Safari for Windows will be a hit for sure
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by vidalweb
June 15, 2007 9:14 PM PDT
- Ok, let me say this: I'm pretty sure Safari for Windows will be a
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See all 27 Comments >>hit, will push more people to Macs and Apple products and it's
going to make surfing the Web more simple and easy than with
other browsers. Why do I think that? Simple: The truth is most
Windows users have always wanted Mac work style. Some more
deeper than others but that is certainly true.
Regular people, at least in their homes, are looking more and
more for an easy way of use of their computers in order to joy
more with it instead of wrestling. Too much time leading with
viruses and computer hangs or system slowlyness are just too
much stress when you come from the job to your home.
See, I'm not saying it will destroy the IE, that's very difficult today
since it comes with Windows as default, but it will grow a lot,
you'll see as with iTunes. As iTunes, Safari is an Apple Troyan
Horse, not a virus, but an intelligent strategy to show how easy,
beautiful and powerful are Mac applications, unlike many think
that Macs are just pretty and eyecandy but simple and short,
which are not at all.
Parenthesis:
(See, for example, if Macs weren't good, and were simple and
"toy computers", as some others say, and important product
company as Adobe, for name just one, wouldn't waste time
always making entire suites products for it, so don't came to me
with the dumb 6% market share issue, that doesn't have sense at
all. Macs are beast machines which work excellent and make
money, not pretty toys. Sorry but a lot of people think in that
way).
Ok, back again.
iTunes came to Windows firstly as the iPod manager and the
Music Store, but, it has converted in a beast who destroy even
Winamp, the most used music player. But how a big full screen
software can beat a tiny and beautiful and great working one?
Easy: With easy of use and better performance. Now, that will
happen with Safari.
Safari is in beta and it works pretty bad by now, but why they
give that to the public? Simple: They have to test it really well in
order to make it better for the Windows world.
I'm confident that this first version of Safari for Windows
wouldn't be a really good one. But I'm pretty sure in v4 or v5 IE
and Firefox will be facing troubles. Apple want people to buy
Apple products and by now they have learned really good how to
do it, so Safari is a tool to get people as iTunes is too, so the
effort to make it work excellent are top A+.
Most people are using IE not because it is the best browser, but
because it comes with Windows, that helps a lot, BUT, this
generation is using it 'cause this is the first Internet generation
who barely have learned to use a computer. Most regular
peoplen now doesn't know really well their machines and their
OS and how it works at all. Now there are kids all over the world
that are using computers since 4 and 5 years old when we where
just playing with toys around the house at that age, and that
generation who is growing now knows how computers work and
which applications are better than others, and trust me, the best
will prevail. IE will die little by little since it is bad, it is a bad
interpreter and little by little will be pushed away and Apple and
Firefox can benefit really big of that. In 10 years maybe IE will be
12% or 15% you'll see. Technology is like that.
The best will prevail.