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O Browser, Where Art Thou? |
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
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Apple gets its latest browser out of it trousers and pokes it through Windows for all to see.
Apple has plonked the latest version of its Safari web browser software, ‘Safari 3’. firmly in the laps of PC users. Effectively this means that it will go head-to-head with Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox. Apple claims that its software is faster, but the jury remains out as to whether it’s actually better.
Not that this troubled Apple’s high-level hypesters yesterday as the chattering classes in Mac-land announced a version of Safari running on XP or Vista for the monosyllabic neanderthals in the world of PCs.
“We think Windows users are going to be really impressed when they see how fast and intuitive web browsing can be with Safari”, said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Hundreds of millions of Windows users already use iTunes, and we look forward to turning them on to Safari’s superior browsing experience too.”
A free beta version of Safari 3 is available now and full commercial version, also free, will be available in October, the company said. The reference to the take-up of iTunes on PCs is instructive: it now looks like merely a Trojan Horse used to gain entry into the world of PC software.
Still, as Apple itself would doubtless admit as it unleashes Safari on a wider world of browsers, “it’s a jungle out there”.
Jim Chalmers
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