Microsoft Software Testers now working at Apple
If you are a windows regular, you know how well tested the software is that you are using. With the number of updates Microsoft has been providing lately for their OS only, you may consider yourself a real (perpetual) beta tester.
Also worth mentioning is that Apple actually is a serious provider for Windows software too. At D5 Steve already mentioned an impressive number of Windows copies of iTunes out there and again in the press release they state
Hundreds of millions of Windows users already use iTunes, and we look forward to turning them on to Safari’s superior browsing experience too.
With their latest move, they are taking serious advantage of this situation: Safari (3) is and will be the browser for Mac OS and also for the soon to be released iPhone. But how do we test the software (with browsers it is typically the rendering engine that needs most testing) with our user base? Ah, well. Let’s just take advantage of the fact that Safari runs on Mac OS that runs on Intel so lets go the short extra mile and deploy a Windows version of Safari. And here we go. Safari 3 beta for Windows.
Thank you to all Windows users for testing the Mac OS and iPhone browser for the rest of us. Get you copy today.