Safari for Windows Downloaded Over 1 Million Times

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."

Comments

It makes me wonder...

[jZnat]

These statistics make me wonder if Konqueror 4 will become another large competitor on Windows. Konqueror and Safari both share a very common core (KHTML/WebKit), so the renderring and page handling should be relatively the same. Web designers can get another speedy and a more native web browsers that tests their sites for the same purpose, and general users can get a lightweight, standards-compliant, open source web browser (without the OSS requirements, you can already get this with Opera, of course) that won't try to enforce another platform's "look'n'feel" like Apple's apps all do.

For the interested, you can grab an alpha copy of KDE 4 (download qt-copy, kdelibs, and kdebase at the very least; you can use either GCC/Cygwin or MS Visual Studio to compile it). On OS X, there are precompiled universal binaries for everything, and Kubuntu and openSUSE users can get packages for it from their respective websites.

Re:It makes me wonder...

[Allicorn]

Took off?

Just because I downloaded the thing doesn't mean I'm going to switch to using it seriously.

Maybe I just wanted a giggle!

Re:It makes me wonder...

[Andrew Tanenbaum]

You must not be a very good developer. Windows+IE7 is free for testing.

Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displa ylang=en

You can convert the VPC image to the format of your VM of choice (I use VMWare Player on Linux).

Re:It makes me wonder...

[azuretek]

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.

Dumb speculations

[Alphager]

"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."

If my aunt had balls, she would be my uncle.

Also

[Quaoar]

Congratulations to Slashdot and its 1 millionth Safari 3.0 story!

Competition

[desenz]

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

And Uninstalled 1 million times

[gtinferno]

There! I said it.

Re:KDE 4 Konqueror KHTML

[Goaway]

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.

Half a million downloaded it...

[Thabenksta]

Then the same half a million downloaded it again the next day for the bug fixes.