Kosovar Independence and the Russian Reaction

February 20, 2008

By George Friedman

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Apple's release of the Safari browser for Windows has been hard-tested by me for several weeks now, and I'm pleasantly surprised to find that recent releases have corrected a variety of earlier incarnations' deficiencies.

Advanced mouse functionality is now present, including forward/back button functionality, one-button searching (available on my Logitech VX Nano wireless laser mouse) and hyperscrolling.

All plugins which were available for, but somewhat erratic on, earlier releases now function flawlessly, including Java and Flash. Microsoft's Silverlight plugin has yet to be tested at this time.

This leads us to tne major area that remains a concern: the paucity of additional functionality through plugins and search providers. So far, only Yahoo and Google are available as search providers.

Still, Safari is now nearly as capable on Windows as it is on OS X, and makes a perfectly acceptable alternative to Firefox or even Internet Explorer 7.