Apple: Safari available to Windows users

[Bolt_Gundam510]

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Apple Inc. launched a version of its Safari Web browser for Windows-based PCs on Monday, pitting it against Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Internet Explorer and Mozilla's 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, he said. Like the other Web browsers, Safari is available at no charge.

Jobs claimed Safari performs twice as fast as its competitors.

Never one to disappoint his audience, the iconic chief executive -- in his final highlight of his 1 ½-hour speech -- said Apple's upcoming iPhone will run Safari.

That means, Jobs said, that any application designed to run on the Safari browser for Macs also would be fully compatible with the iPhone -- Apple's highly anticipated combination cell phone, iPod and wireless Web browser. The iPhone will be available in the U.S. on June 29.

The move to make Safari available to non-Mac users is not unprecedented: Apple also makes its iPod media players and iTunes Store for Windows. The strategy is aimed in part at drawing more people to its Macintosh computers.

It appears to be paying off. Mac sales have grown significantly over the past two years, pushing its slice of the PC market in the United States from 3.5 percent in 2004 to 4.9 percent in 2006, according to IDC, a market research company.

"Safari is another Trojan horse that introduces an innovation of Apple to the Windows community and entices them to the Mac platform," said Tim Bajarin, an industry analyst at Creative Strategies, a technology consultancy.

Source: CNN TECHNOLOGY

[Zeus_Hunt]

Find the software Here

[Anteus]

bugged as #*!"

[loonacycle]

major memory hog!!! :D

[lister]

Apparently, this is the 3rd Beta - I wonder what the first two were like!

Crashed twice, screwed up the rendering on about 20% of the pages I viewed.

Not too keen on the font rendering, unless I was going to print the page I suppose!

[Nemesis]

why use safari when you have progs like firefox, opera, and hell, even IE 7. i use mac's at school and safari sucks balls, you cant do anything in it. its great for beginner computer users, but thats it.

[Zeus_Hunt]

Security company Symantec has confirmed all eight vulnerabilities impacting Apple's Safari on Windows. Starting on June 11, 2007, Apple made Safari available for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Currently, the product is a public beta release, and Apple informed that the browser will be delivered as a free download for Vista, XP and Tiger simultaneously with the launch of Mac OS X 1.05 Leopard in October.

On the official Apple website for Safari, the Cupertino-based company revealed a total of 12 reasons why users would love Safari. At the bottom of the pile, the 12th reason is of course the "traditional" Apple security. Apple promises nothing short of "worry-free web browsing on any computer" because "Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one." The following paragraphs, applauding the browser's high security level, have been taken from the Safari web page.

Despite Apple's arrogant assumptions for Safari's security as the browser – thrown out of the Mac OS X Garden of Eden – made its first conquering steps on the Windows territory, Eric Chien, Symantec Security Response Engineer warned of the fact that the Apple browser was going to become yet another vector of attack on Microsoft's platform. Chien predicted that exploits and vulnerabilities will follow Safari to Windows.

Now, the main difference between Apple and Symantec is that only one of the two companies actually deals with security, while the other only manages the perception of customer protection via marketing. I'll let you put two and two together. David Maynor, Thor Larholm and Aviv Raff are three security researchers which managed to prove Apple wrong. Apple's secure from day one Safari was hit with eight vulnerabilities in just the first day. Symantec confirmed all of them.

"Details on the first one have already been released publicly and the other two have been reportedly disclosed to Apple. We have not seen these being used maliciously in the wild, but then again, they were just released hours ago. We definitely expect in-the-wild usage to follow in the future, as well as the discovery of more vulnerabilities. This Safari release is officially a beta release. Even if these vulnerabilities didn't exist, we wouldn't recommend using beta software in a production environment. Hopefully many of these bugs will be scrubbed before the official release," Chien stated.

Mac OS X Garden of Eden :D

2nd Para is :lol: as well.