This is ridiculous.
I'm all for more people using Safari, but if Apple is going to distribute it through their Software Update application, they need to at least mark it as "new" and deselect it by default.
What's even worse is that Apple Software Update popped up on me today at work, offering Safari 3.1 to a Windows 2000 machine- a machine that Safari won't even run on! It's done that with newer, incompatible versions of iTunes, too.
Get it together, Apple!
Eh? iTunes needs Quicktime to work. Without it you wouldn't hear the music or see the video. iTunes is the management app, Quicktime does all the playback.
Nothing wrong with Quicktime, not going to hurt a Windows machine anyway.
Unless you're using something like
EasyWorship that
will not work if QuickTime is installed; it requires
QuickTime Alternative.
I don't really like this expansion of iTunes. ITunes already has a cluttered interface with lots of things I don't care about or need. This just makes iTunes a bulkier and more ungainly product (though actually I'm not a windows user, so maybe it's not so bad on Windows).
I think you might be confused... Safari does not become a part of iTunes; it's a separate application. What does happen is when iTunes and thus, Apple Software Update, is installed, Software Update offers you Safari 3.1, even if you don't have a previous version of Safari installed.
That is not how it is presented at all. It pops up in the Window's automatic update window. Then you have to click either "proceed" or "quit". If you decide to hit quit, then it will ask you again if you would like to proceed with your automatic updates the next time you log on.
I don't know where you checked last.
What version of Windows are you using? In XP and 2000 at work, it popped up in the Apple Software Update application, not in the Windows Automatic Updates daemon-thingy. Did your screen look different than arn's earlier screen shot of the Apple SU application?
Hmm. When I installed Microsoft Office on my Mac, Microsoft attempted to install Explorer too.
What are you talking about? Internet Explorer's last version on the Mac was 5.2.3
in 2003 and Windows Explorer is Microsoft's version of the Finder. Microsoft would not be pushing IE 5.2.3; they officially began pushing Safari shortly after it was released and Windows Explorer won't run in OS X, nor would it be of any use...
It's not like Apple is secretly installing Safari along with iTunes. It's just informing you - or pestering you, depending on your level of interest - that Safari for Windows is updated and available. It's not hard to uncheck the box and Quit instead of install it, right? Or turn Apple Software Update off completely?
That's the thing, though. The way Apple is presenting Safari (without a "new" tag, explanation, or default deselect of the checkbox to install) makes it look (to the "average" user [is there a such thing?
]) like a normal update. It makes it appear like Safari is already on their machine and they "have" to update to make sure everything works properly.
Think about some grandmother seeing this... she'll say, "Oh, I'd better hit that button even though I don't know what it means." People
don't read these things; they don't look for ways out of it, they just click "OK" and move on, hoping the world doesn't fall in around them.
Here here.
I don't think I would mind as much if there was a different section of "Apple Software Update" that showed programs available from Apple.
If you didn't have Safari installed on Windows, it could tell you it was available. However, it should not select it for installation by default, nor should it look like an update to software you have installed.[/Q
Very good idea; Google does this with Google Updater.
However, wouldn't it be nice to only have one updater? Like if MSAU went away and MS software was updated through Apple Software Update on OS X and vice versa on Windows (not that I don't love ASU!).
