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Safari for Windows Downloaded Over 1 Million Times

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the popularity-contests dept.

ClaraBow writes "Apple reports that it took Apple just two days to reach 1 million downloads of its newest Safari Web browser for Windows. If these downloads manifested into regular Safari users, then we just might have a third major browser on the Windows platform. If Safari can obtain a 10% market share on Windows, then it would further weaken IE's position and give standards-based browsers more leverage with developers."

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  1. Competition by desenz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I might be way off, but it seems more likely to me that Safari will be grabbing its marketshare from firefox, not IE.

  2. Re:KDE 4 Konqueror KHTML by Goaway · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All your other blue-eyed optimism aside, this is particularly funny:

    and won't go thunk in the night when Bill Gates "upgrades" things to break your work

    You know, it's really open source software that's known for making arbitrary upgrades that break backwards compatibility (and keeping version numbers below 1 so they have an excuse - hey, it's just beta!), while Windows goes to great pains to preserve backwards compatibility at all costs, even at the detriment of the system as a whole.

  3. Re:It makes me wonder... by azuretek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly, I think of that 1 million the majority of them are already firefox users and they just want to test it out, see how good/bad it is.

    I did download it though I'm not using it as my main browser, I don't even use it on my powerbook.