I was one of the users that update “installed safari”. It was 5am I was checking my email before I go to work, Itunes has an update. well I click ok on it without really reading it. well I get home from work and windows internet explorer just keeds crashing. I scan for virus/spyware I have 0 found, I restart my Pc and it still crashs. Well I notice I have new programs installed and its safari. I played with it then uninstalled it. now winddows internet explorer works fine. This is not good what they have done. having both will cause internet explorer to crash all the time.

Huh, it doesn’t cause my Internet Explorer 7 to crash. That’s really bad though if it was causing your IE to crash though, but submitting a bug report for that would probably just get ignored.

This is a microcosm of all the questionable tactics Apple uses because they can’t get users to legitimately like their products.

Er, yeah. That’s it… nobody likes their products. How fiendish of them to have forced all of those products on everyone over the years.

This is a microcosm of all the questionable tactics Apple uses because they can’t get users to legitimately like their products.

Well, they can get people to like some of their products, but I think Safari on Windows is a much harder game.

Next Wednesday we’re putting several of the mainstream browsers up against each other so we’ll find out then.

Huh, I never knew that. I’ve always installed iTunes with QuickTime so I’ve never seen that notification.

In the past I’ve tried to avoid it like the plague, but I bought an iPhone since I really liked the device and you have to install iTunes in order to get the darn thing activated.

Besides I know their computers come with background tasks that are supposed to be self healing mechanisms but can in reality work much like cancer cells do in the human body. The computer thinks everything is fine and starts replicating the bad hard drive blocks and before you know it the computer blows up. I have seen this happen to many people. It’s what has helped third party tools makers sell so much software for fixing Macs.

Anyway, that’s my thoughts on Apple software and hardware for the moment.

Besides this, Apple relationship with Windows is way better than in the past. QuickTime 6 and earlier used to push qttask in Windows’ autostart, while it stole ALL of your multimedia extensions (both in Windows and in browsers’ plugins), without asking, and then you have to re-register the extensions with the programs you use. In contrast, QuickTime 7 is a well-behaved citizen.

It’s not faster. Not even close. page loads are minimally faster than firefox, but start times and even accessing menus is sluggish.

But the real kicker, is that the whole thing is basically one giant OSX advert. It doesn’t mesh at all with the windows UI, they give it the OSX feel, with the blue shiny scroll bars, and even the out-then-down animated way dialog boxes pop up. Needless to say all this fancy rendering outside of the default leads to very slow performance, at least on this old laptop of mine. iTunes doesn’t do a fantastic job of blending in with windows, but it does enough to not be an eyesore (although your opinion on that may vary).

Needless to say, I’ve uninstalled already.

Sad how ruthless apple is becoming(already has been). I’d hate them as much as microsoft, but this iPhone here, damnit, it’s just so sweet.

I think maybe the Quicktime plugin for Firefox caused this since I have disabled all the related helper programs and services iTunes want to install every time. This is very annoying and I ended up uninstalling Apple Software Update although I’ll probably need it the next time they patch Quicktime.

I’m really glad that many of you feel the same way that I do that this is an inappropriate way for Apple to try and spread Safari.