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Jobs Demoes Leopard, Announces Safari for Windows

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 11th Jun 2007 18:27 UTC

At its Worldwide Developers Conference today in San Fransisco, Apple discussed its upcoming operating system, Mac OS X Leopard. As always, Steve held his keynote speech wearing his well-known ensemble. The keynote dealt mostly with Leopard, while keeping the most interesting part for last. Read on for the details. Update: Read more for a screenshot of Safari running on Windows... Barely.

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Two thumbs up

by Sabon on Mon 11th Jun 2007 18:37 UTC

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2005-07-06

Two thumbs up. I can't wait until October. Definitely not just a service pack like some other OS.

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RE: Two thumbs up

by dagw on Mon 11th Jun 2007 19:31 in reply to "Two thumbs up"

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2005-07-06

And no doubt they won't let you download it for free unlike service packs for some other OS.

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RE[2]: Two thumbs up

by Kroc on Mon 11th Jun 2007 19:41 in reply to "RE: Two thumbs up"

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2005-11-10

Vista wasn't a free download for XP users, so why should this be?

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RE: Two thumbs up

by Kroc on Mon 11th Jun 2007 20:59 in reply to "Two thumbs up"

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2005-11-10

Screenshot of Mac & PC versions side by side:
http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1ip3.png

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RE[2]: Two thumbs up

by Alex Forster on Tue 12th Jun 2007 01:05 in reply to "RE: Two thumbs up"

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2005-08-12

That's really interesting. Safari/Windows uses whatever OS X uses for font rendering, not XP's cleartype. I thought the text looked different. Time to dig around in CoreGraphics.dll!

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