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Safari for Windows Receives Prominent Placement on Microsoft's European 'Browser Ballot'

djellison said:
I can imagine no possible reason why someone would want Safari on a PC

http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=3636
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Well, it does feel WAY faster (or smoother) than Firefox. Firefox is just pure bloat.

Opera on the other hand is lovely love.

This is probably one of the stupidest MS complaints I've ever heard. The fact that it's getting so much attention is quite hilarious.

It's Flash. Flash has always be horribly unoptimized on Macs. I remember it used to make the fans crank up on my dual G5 whenever I loaded up a page with Flash on it (even just a little ad).
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It's worse for Linux :(
 
Does the Euro version of Mac OS X have this too or is Europe ok with Apple including Safari?
 
That's it!

mustang_dvs said:
The order seems alphabetical:

Apple
Google
Microsoft
Mozilla
Opera

(Which of course, puts Microsoft smack-dab in the visual center of the group.)
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We need to ban the alphabet as it currently is and make it random. I mean, how fair is it that "A" always gets first billing and "Z" is always last? Does no one care about Z's feelings? Or what about all the other letters that people don't even remember what number they are? Quick, name the number for "P", "R" and "K". See, totally bias, we should take this to the Supreme Court, it's discrimination I tell you!

*end sarcasm*
 
Obviously they should do like those old school javascript-heavy webpages where the links all bounce randomly around the screen and you have to chase them down to click on them.
 
malohkan said:
Obviously they should do like those old school javascript-heavy webpages where the links all bounce randomly around the screen and you have to chase them down to click on them.
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And then MSFT would make all the other ones move more quickly and do that deal where you can't actually click on it ;)
 
The solution is simple.

Have Microsoft instruct the user at the top of the screen to close their eyes, swish their mouse around a little bit, and click.
 
bigmc6000 said:
No possible reason at all? Ever heard of these fancy machines called "desktops"? I know laptops are making a big push but, honest to God, there are still actually computers that are plugged into the wall 100% of the time.
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Not to mention that battery life is far from what dictates which browser I use.
 
Oh here is something to consider rather than that lame "MS at the center" crap a lot of your are using to CONVINCE yourself, just for the love of MS . The OS on the pc is Windows. And we all know that all the pcs that "matter" license Windows.
And behind it all is Google.
 
so stupid and trivial.
I like the option to get her FF in first place. :rolleyes:

I think it is slightly unfair that Safari reads so small.:eek:
 
I don’t know how you can argue with alphabetical order. Mozilla and Opera will never be happy.

The fact that Microsoft has even agreed to offer this is huge. I’m not sure Apple or any other company would have done the same.

I still maintain that most people won’t bother, and will just pick Internet Explorer because that’s what they use at work and what they’re used to. Even if they manage to pick another browser, it’s likely going to be by accident.

Mozilla and Opera are essentially trying to gain market share by accidental installs. I don’t think Apple cares. Safari on Windows is essentially alive to test compatibility with iPhone.

Unless you’re a geek or a tech enthusiast (and let’s face it if you are — you don’t need a browser ballot screen), you’re not going to actively pick Safari, Firefox or Opera.
 
This is pathetic.
She shows her company in a really bad light with dumb emotional rants like this.
If she knew anything about the subject she would understand that placement alone is not the outstanding criterion.
Color and shape play a much larger part in the matter.
This deserves no room on this site.
 
Is anyone complaining that Safari comes pre-installed on Macs? Or that there's no IE for Macs? This all seems silly. As long as MS allows people to install whatever browser they want, what's the problem? The people who would want a different browser know which one they want. The people who don't know one browser from another probably won't care anyway and just stick with IE. IMO, there's only a problem if MS makes it difficult or impossible to install other browsers when you want to (like how they prevented other DOS systems from being installed).
 
As long as web developers quit making pages that load on only one browser (ahem, IE), who cares?

I honestly couldn't care less which one is listed first. It's ridiculous that so much effort has to be put into randomizing based on market share of a simple list of browsers.

Why don't we randomize the list using the current time and the stock market averages from the Nikkei and NYSE, based primarily on market share but secondarily on alphabetization of the developing company name, and then presented in a rotating circle with all icons in black and white.
 
Uhhhhh. Center and to the right is most prominent. Graphic arts 101.

If it was a vertical list, different story. Big deal anyways. :rolleyes:
 
I think five choices the center will be most prominent in a horizontal layout.
 
Safari and Chrome are better than Firefox

Safari and Chrome are both waaaaaaay ahead of Firefox in the support of new technologies such as CSS3. I'd rather see more Safari and Chrome users than Firefox users.

Also, if Firefox is already #2, let the other browsers have a chance. The goal is not to have 50% Internet Explorer and 50% Firefox. The goal should be to have about even proportions of IE8, Safari 4, Chrome, Firefox 3, Opera 10.
 
I've found this whole thing pathetic, if people wanted another browser to Internet Explorer then just go online and download one of preference. Not hard!

As some people have mentioned, why is Microsoft penalised and Apple are allowed to still provide Safari as standard.
 
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