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WWDC started this morning with Steve Jobs' keynote

 And I missed it all. My countdown widget must of had the wrong timezone. The biggest news that I saw from glancing over it is Safari 3, which is also available for windoze.

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Apple Introduces Safari for Windows

 

Public Beta Available Today for Mac & Windows

 

WWDC 2007, SAN FRANCISCO--June 11, 2007--Apple today introduced Safari 3,

the world's fastest and easiest-to-use web browser for Windows PCs and

Macs. Safari is the fastest browser running on Windows, based on the

industry standard iBench tests, rendering web pages up to twice as fast as

IE 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari joins iTunes in

delivering Apple's legendary user experience to both Windows and Mac users

as well as full support of open Internet standards. Safari 3 features

easy-to-manage bookmarks, effortless browsing with easy-to-organize tabs

and a built-in RSS reader to quickly scan the latest news and information.

Safari 3 public beta is available today as a free download at

www.apple.com/safari .

 

"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."

 

Safari has always been the fastest browser on the Mac and now it's the

fastest browser on Windows, loading and drawing web pages up to twice as

fast as Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than

Mozilla Firefox 2.* The speed of Safari combined with its intuitive user

interface lets users spend more time surfing the web and less time waiting

for pages to load. Other Safari features now available to Windows users

include SnapBack, one-click access to an initial search query; resizable

text fields; and private browsing to ensure that information about an

individual's browsing history isn't stored.

 

Safari 3 supports all modern Internet standards so users can view websites

as they were meant to be seen, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and

Java. Safari software updates are delivered seamlessly through Apple's

Software Update application, which automatically checks for updates.

 

Pricing & Availability

 

The free public beta of Safari 3 is available immediately as a download at

www.apple.com/safari , and is preview software licensed for use on a trial

basis for a limited time. The final version of Safari 3 will be available

as a feature in the upcoming Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard, and will be

available as a free download to Mac OS X Tiger and Windows users in October.

 

System Requirements

 

Safari 3 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.9 or later, a minimum of

256MB of memory and is designed to run on any Intel-based Mac or a Mac with

a PowerPC G5, G4 or G3 processor and built-in FireWire. Safari 3 for

Windows requires Windows XP or Windows Vista, a minimum of 256 MB of memory

and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor.

 

*Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection

and other factors. Testing conducted on an iMac 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

system running Windows XP, with 1GB of RAM.

 So now you silly people who use windoze can get a decent browser.

And they even made fun of Vista

Steve is announcing three tiered pricing for Leopard, and there were audible groans in the audience.

The base version is $129.

The special version is...wait for it...$129 (the audience started cheering and clapping).

The Ultimate Version is...$129