Tuesday, June 12, 2007
I'll be honest. I don't like Macs. There, I said it. Needless to say, I laughed when I read today that Apple had ported Safari to the Windows platform. When it comes to internet browsers I do mainly use Firefox. But I didn't switch to Firefox until about a year ago. Even on a Mac I use Firefox. Why? Because I don't like Safari. Safari always seemed to be lacking something. It was slow, you couldn't import and export bookmarks, and it doesn't load all websites correctly. So today when I read the Safari news, I said "Ok Mr. Jobs, I'll bite." I downloaded Safari for Windows. It was great to see an import and export bookmarks in the file menu, but other than that I found nothing special, and I would not use Safari over Firefox. For you Mac/Safari users, I'm sure you'd give a yawn to this news. For you Windows/IE/FireFox users, this may look quite different at first, but I'd say you will switch back to your previous browser after a while. I already uninstalled Safari.
I'm sure the purpose of this software release was not to make the world switch to Safari, but rather to give people more access to Apple products, to give them a taste of the Mac world. "Like what you see? Come join us, and together we can usher in a new era of computing - an era where Macintosh reigns over all things PC." If you want to use a Mac, don't fake it by using Safari, just go out and buy one. But anyway, forget about how I feel - try it yourself. The link is below.
Download Safari for Windows here!
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