Safari Browser from Apple

I heard through the RSS world that Apple had released a windows version of Safari, so even though FireFox is so well established with me, I never have left a browser untried since Mosaic, so I downloaded the thing.

I was dismayed that it wanted to force me to reinstall iTunes, the aggressive store they want to establish on my desktop. I had un-installed iTunes just recently after trying to revive a dead iPod somebody gave me. I resisted, but then did install it to see if it would help make Safari run right.

Well, Safari di not run right at all. It installed OK, but came up with NO TEXT in the pull down menus, just little dashes where the working but secretive pull down choices were.
I re-installed, tried some things on the windows side, fiddled around, but could not seem to get it running. It even locked up the computer twice, so I re-booted to see if that was a requirement.

Then I got the inspiration! The last mac I owned needed these bit-mapped fonts to operate. Maybe Steve Jobs, Andy Hertzfield, Bill Atkinson, and those guys who signed the inside of my original MAC 128 in 1984 had left a requirement for those to be present!

Well, That didn't help either. The next thing I realized is I no longer know where to turn for help on Apple stuff. There is no better help, of course from Microsoft on their products, but at least I know where all the Technet searches are, and the forums, and all that. Surely in this release of Safari, I can not be the only one with this problem. But a few google searches seemed to indicate that I was the only one.

So the choice for now was to un-install with some regret, and wait for a few versions to shake out before trying again.