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Earlier this week, in response to controversy surrounding the fact that Apple had chosen to include Safari as a download in Software Update for Windows even if the user never had Safari in the first place, Apple released a Software Update 2.1 Update that now categorizes Safari 3.1 as “New Software.
There are a couple catches though. First, the Safari box is still checked, so for those tons of people who just say yes whenever they see “Update Needed,” they will still be surprised to find Safari on their computer. Secondly, the Software Update update requires you to run Software Update to get it, thus installing Safari anyway if you don’t uncheck it.
Personally, I see no big issue with this for consumers. Worst case scenario, they don’t pay any attention and install the best browser in the world. The area where this gets annoying is in business networks when instances of Safari start popping up all over the network. Most IT people don’t want to deal with safari and then have to spend time deleting them all.
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