LOL, just popped out a window on my Windows-PC identical to the Apple software update of OS X. Obviously that feature was silently installed alongside Safari beta.  Apple definitely wants PC users get used to the Mac way of doing things. 

New software is:

iTunes + Quicktime 7.2
Safari for Windows 3.0.1
Security Update (QuickTime 7.1.6) 1.0

It is even localised to my default language of choice, in spite that Safari Beta was only available in English.

Safari 3.0.1 was so fast that it’s almost as if they knew . . .

Computerworld has a little review:

First look: Apple’s Safari beta—what’s new, what it means

[quote author=“carbonat”]LOL, just popped out a window on my Windows-PC identical to the Apple software update of OS X. Obviously that feature was silently installed alongside Safari beta.  Apple definitely wants PC users get used to the Mac way of doing things. 

New software is:

iTunes + Quicktime 7.2
Safari for Windows 3.0.1
Security Update (QuickTime 7.1.6) 1.0

It is even localised to my default language of choice, in spite that Safari Beta was only available in English.

So, is there a way to initialize an update manually?

I believe it is just a “Software Update” app found somewhere in Start > Programs which you can run at any time you choose.

I believe it is just a “Software Update” app found somewhere in Start > Programs which you can run at any time you choose.

So there isn’t a convient webportal to update through, or a way to download a package that will then update? I have to use the autoupdater software?

Lame.

You should be able to download the latest version from the apple web sit.

Windows Safari Beta Tops 1 Million in 48

Gizmodo.com

Curious Windows users wondering whether the grass is greener, or fed up IE/Firefox users looking for an out? Either way, another cold glass of ice water, indeed.

Using it at work, we’ve found that all network operations either crash the browser (network printing, for example) or don’t load pages (LANDesk). I bet the network piece just hasn’t been seeded yet.

I believe it is just a “Software Update” app found somewhere in Start > Programs which you can run at any time you choose.

So there isn’t a convient webportal to update through, or a way to download a package that will then update? I have to use the autoupdater software?

Lame.

Who says that’s the only way to update? There’s no reason you can’t go to Apple’s site and download the latest version manually if you prefer.

As for a “web portal”, if you’re talking about something like Windows Update I think it’s for the best that Apple doesn’t make the updater work that way. Giving a web-based system permission to install software on your local filesystem is a scary proposition, and something best left out of the equation.

Cringely chimes in about safari on windows, and then rattles on about Jobs wanting to take AT&T to the cleaners.  I’m not quite sure what he was talking about.

Beyond garnering some press, Safari for Windows is about AT&T. Steve Jobs is the best salesperson in the entire universe, but he doesn’t like to waste his time. That means that, having seduced AT&T (nee Cingular), Steve will try to sell them more and more stuff until they have bought everything he has. He will invent stuff specifically to sell to AT&T as long as it acts as a bridge to yet more stuff he wants to sell them.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070614_002230.html

[quote author=“granny smith”]Cringely chimes in about safari on windows, and then rattles on about Jobs wanting to take AT&T to the cleaners.  I’m not quite sure what he was talking about.

He will invent stuff specifically to sell to AT&T as long as it acts as a bridge to yet more stuff he wants to sell them.

Yeah, two of everything for AT&T. Rambling git.

Most people don’t realize that Safari is based on a different rendering engine, K-HTML that was developed by the people working on the Linux KDE platform. As a long-time Mac guy that is gravitating more and more towards Linux, I can see the advantages of moving towards that platform.

For me, the greatest thing about Safari is the integration of the browser with .Mac services, allowing me to share bookmarks and even security information across multiple computers. oth, I have been playing with Flock (based on the Mozilla engine) and I really love the way that it deals with RSS, but I still keep on coming back to Safari because it just seems faster.

Safari crashes on my Mac when I attempt to read a pdf file.  Disappointed in Apple on this.

[quote author=“hledgard”]Safari crashes on my Mac when I attempt to read a pdf file.  Disappointed in Apple on this.

Works fine for me.. might be something system specific to you maybe?

[quote author=“hledgard”]Safari crashes on my Mac when I attempt to read a pdf file.  Disappointed in Apple on this.

Could it be that you are using some sort of PDF plugin (like Adobe or Schubert) and that is conflicting with Safari’s in-built capabilities?

EDIT: Judging from this post on macosxhints , there are issues with a couple of Safari add-ons and Safari 3. It might be an idea to remove all add-ons except those that the developers have verified work properly on Safari 3.