It is common knowledge that Apple has never quite been successful at building applications for the Windows platform. History, though, tells us a different tale. And with Microsoft still battling the lawsuit on its bundling of IE with its operating systems, there might still be a chance for Apple of taking a lead in this new browser war-if Microsoft loses the case. The other possible reason for Apple having released Safari for Windows could be that Apple simply wants to increase its browser market share, which, as you know, lags way behind IE or even Firefox. Apple has made an attempt to pitch Web-based applications- which, naturally, imply Safari-as the iPhone developer platform. One school of thought says the motive for this is to invite more developers to code applications for the iPhone, which runs on Mac OS X. Speculation is rife in regards to this totally unexpected move by Apple.
A million downloads of the browser for Windows were clocked right in the first week after the launch. THE APPLE-MICROSOFT RIVALRY broke into a new battleground last month with the launch of Apple’s Safari 3.0 browser-in public beta-for both Windows and Mac OS X.
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