Today was Steve Job’s WWDC keynote for 2007. Although Leopard’s new features were the focus of the show (and there are some nice things in there), the most surprising announcement was that Safari is now available on Windows! Apple are obviously wanting to increase their presence among the Windows market and I suppose this is one way of doing that. Hell I’ve already downloaded it at work.
For those non-Mac users out there, Safari is Apple’s web browser. For the even more n00bish, Apple’s Internet Explorer. :) Side by side they are really quite similar, but Safari 3 does introduce some long needed features, like re-arranging tabs and inline find which have been in Firefox and IE for some time. It’s free for everyone, so you should go and get a copy from the Apple site. Best of all, it’s twice as fast as Internet Explorer 7 - although I really couldn’t notice any real difference in speed. I did, however, find an interesting bug on Vista. When you drag the Safari window onto a secondary monitor and maximise it, it flies off the screen and you can’t click on it to get it back. I guess that’s why they call it a beta!
As a side note, Apple also have a funky new website… which is also about time!
June 13th, 2007 at 16:56
That’s pretty cool,
I might just grab a copy….
(If it doesn’t fly off the screen):p
July 1st, 2007 at 22:02
I grabbed a copy and it does have some bugs, occasionally it will just go bleh and die. THough it is pretty good, GOOO MAC!