The Safari 3 Public Beta is available for download now on Mac OS X 10.4.9 (Tiger) and Windows XP. With the release of Mac OS X 10.5 in October, Safari 3 will run on the new Mac OS, Windows XP, and Windows Vista.
Apple's effort to broaden Safari's distribution may come at Microsoft's expense, but Timothy Wood, a conference attendee and the founder and director of software development for The Omni Group, saw the move as an effort to counter Firefox's popularity. "I think they're going up against Firefox," he said.
It is worth noting that Google, which has become closer to Apple since Google CEO Eric Schmidt joined Apple's board of directors, has strong ties to the Firefox developer community and a significant interest in the vitality of Firefox.
In the iBench test, Safari loaded Web pages up in nearly half the amount of time the same job took Firefox 2.
According to Jobs, there are 18 million Safari users. Safari accounts for a 5% share of the browser market while Internet Explorer has 78%, Firefox has 15%, and other browsers like Opera and The Omni Group's OmniWeb compose the remaining 2%.
Ethan Schoonover, a conference attendee and developer who blogs at kinkless.com, said he expected that the addition of Windows support would help Safari make inroads in enterprise environments where many IT managers remain wary of open source projects like Firefox.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
