Problems in using Safari on Windows

Apple is on a high nowadays. It is seen as the leader in computing design, has the by-far-largest selling product in the personal media player market, has ownership of the iPhone (probably the most hotly awaited product for some time), and seems to have played a master stroke by moving its Mac onto an Intel machine, this allowing people the option to install windows on their Mac machines and pushing up the sales of Macs. However, there comes a time when a company gets too arrogant, and then realizes that arrogance is not a virtue (especially when the arrogance is revealed to be based on false premises). Microsoft has faced this repeatedly in the past, especially in the area of security (both for operating systems and applications); claiming that their apps are secure, and then facing a number of holes pointed out by hackers and security specialists. Well, the high and mighty Apple faces the same situation today with Safari.
Safari, the default browser on the Mac, is now available on Windows as a Beta, and I read reports where Apple claimed that this browser is secure. Well, no longer. Security experts, no doubt encouraged by Apple's claims, found numerous security holes in this Beta of Safari such as Denial of Service support, remote execution bugs, memory corruption, etc, As time goes by, more such errors will be found. This article claims that the Beta of Safari should not be used for actual web use because of its bugs.

Although all browsers have security issues uncovered on a relatively regular basis, most of which are rapidly patched up with updates and fixes, the latest beta version of Safari has been put to the test by a number of security researchers, as reported by PC Magazine and others, and is so far failing a lot of security tests.
Problems with Safari uncovered so far include DoS and remote execution bugs, memory corruption that could be exploited, command execution vulnerabilities simply by visiting a web site – and that’s just in the last couple of days. Security researchers are bound to find more bugs in the system, or more ghosts in the machine for Apple to eliminate.
So, should you use Safari on Windows? After all, plenty of Windows users will have downloaded Safari since its release on Monday, and will no doubt have had a surf around to see what it’s like. It looks and feels just like Safari on the Mac, it’s certainly fun to use. For now, it’s also the latest novelty must-have experience from Apple that Windows users can enjoy. Apple’s download servers must be running hot!

Safari is indeed hot, after all, it is the browser on the iPhone, which itself lends to a lot of pull for the browser. However, Firefox is a pretty strong competitor on a number of platforms, so it is not sure as to how much Safari can take away from established browsers.