Apple Distributes Safari Via Software Update - InformationWeek

Apple on Thursday said it is distributing the up-to-the-minute version of the Campaign Web browser to Windows users through Apple Software Update, a move that reflects a more than aggressive effort to catch marketplace share from Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Apple utilizes the update chemical mechanism for Windows for distributing the up-to-the-minute versions of its iTunes music shop and for the QuickTime picture player, which is a foundation engineering for iTunes. With Apple also started offering Windows users the option of installing the browser upgrade. Software Update is also used to update Apple software system in Macintosh computers.

"We are using Software Update to do it easy and convenient for both Macintosh and Windows users to acquire the up-to-the-minute Campaign update from Apple," company spokesman Bill Herbert Mclean Evans said in an emailed statement.

As of February, IE had 74.9% of the browser marketplace in footing of usage, followed by Mozilla Firefox, 17.3%; and Safari, 5.7%, according to

By transportation Campaign via Software Update, Apple is taking a more than aggressive attack to distributing its browser within Microsoft's place turf. In releasing Campaign 3.1, Apple claimed its browser tons Web pages 1.9 modern modern times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2. Such claims are not unusual among sellers comparing merchandises to rivals'.

Among the cardinal improvements in the up-to-the-minute version of Safari, which is available at no charge, is support for further Web standards. On that front, the ascent back ups new picture and audio tags in hypertext markup language 5, and lives created through the usage of cascading style sheets. The browser also back ups CSS Web fonts.

Microsoft this calendar month said it would configure the default scenes in the approaching IE 8 to render content using methods that give a top precedence to Web criteria interoperability. In choosing to prefer standards, Microsoft recognized a "concrete benefit to Web interior designers if all sellers give precedence to interoperability around commonly accepted criteria as they evolve," Beam Ozzie, main software system designer for Microsoft, said in a statement.