Comments on: Why Safari on Windows is a Big Deal http://www.techlifeweb.com/2007/06/12/why-safari-on-windows-is-a-big-deal/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:01:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: shane http://www.techlifeweb.com/2007/06/12/why-safari-on-windows-is-a-big-deal/#comment-66 shane Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:47:56 +0000 http://www.techlifeweb.com/2007/06/12/why-safari-on-windows-is-a-big-deal/#comment-66 Is it really that difficult to get people off IE? My mum doesn't use the internet, but my similarly un-techy sister does and it was really easy to get her off IE. I showed her that Firefox was quicker and blocked pop ups (this was in the IE 6 days). My babble about security issues was background noise in comparison :) I don't see Safari gaining much traction on Windows at all outside of the developer community, which I think is Apple's target audience here anyway. If talk about security and standards can't shift them off IE to Firefox, I don't see it working with Safari either, no matter who makes it. Wouldn't it just be easier to redirect the Big Blue E shortcut to Firefox and be done with it? ;) Is it really that difficult to get people off IE? My mum doesn’t use the internet, but my similarly un-techy sister does and it was really easy to get her off IE. I showed her that Firefox was quicker and blocked pop ups (this was in the IE 6 days). My babble about security issues was background noise in comparison :)

I don’t see Safari gaining much traction on Windows at all outside of the developer community, which I think is Apple’s target audience here anyway. If talk about security and standards can’t shift them off IE to Firefox, I don’t see it working with Safari either, no matter who makes it.

Wouldn’t it just be easier to redirect the Big Blue E shortcut to Firefox and be done with it? ;)

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