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Re: Safari Beta for Windows Vista/XP
The real question is "Why did Apple decide to do this?"

There isn't a need to move their browser onto a Windows platform, there are already a decent general browser (IE) and one that can be finely tweaked to a users content (Firefox). Even Mac folks don't consider Safari to be the nirvana of browsers. Apple will not capture market-share of anything by promoting Safari on a Windows machine. They would be much more effective porting their iMovie or iPhoto software instead -- either of those could bring a market-share blip.

Apple pulled their OS programming engineers earlier this year off Mac OSX 10.5 to help get the iPhone out the door by the end of this month. More than likely, just as iPod uses iTunes on a Windows machine, Apple needed to have an interface to sync the iPhone, and Safari on Windows may be that software. We'll find out on June 29.

What other reasons would Apple have to introduce a general browser onto another platform that already has multiple options for users? Where do you speculate that Apple is headed with this thing?
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