I am not a computer geek, but I have used a pc for almost 20 years now, and in those years I have seen the progression of pcs take me from knowing alot to making me stupid.
Currently I have a 64-bit pc runs with Vista’s OS. Before I purchased this pc, my old one used XP, and Safari was one of the browsers I used at times. So when I upgraded to this 64-bit with Vista I installed the software I wanted and Safari was the last thing I installed.
Well, within a week, my pc started shutting down and I even saw a few blue windows where IU was warned of problems. I immediately uninstalled safari and never had a problem again.
So the problem of Safari also seems to effect 64-bit windows that run Vista, at least it did for me. So to me this is nothing new.
It wouldn’t surprise me. I don’t think the folks at Safari really intend for the program to be run under windows 7 et al. It’s true that an OS is supposed to work with most of what is there, it’s not the fault of the OS if a program crashes.
So the problem of Safari also seems to effect 64-bit windows that run Vista, at least it did for me. So to me this is nothing new.
One of the fundamental rules of an operating systems is If any application program is able to crash an "operating system", Microsoft system 7 and 8 are nothing I would recommend a robust op/sys such any variant of *nix I defenestrated in 2002 switching to Mac OS X. A robust Unix with the User Friendly interface of Apple. Since the advent of Intel Mac there is no reason not to. I've been involved with the development, testing and installation
of operating systems for well over 45 years.
starting with OS/MVT through z/OS and
all flavors of Unix at Bell Labs
that it can not be taken down by any application !
Any robust op/sys should be able to shed a rogue application program.
the "operating system" has fundamental flaws.
Complete systems and integration testing starting
at the module level should have taken place.
but variations on Windows NT.
VISTA was horrible
Windows 7 is much better- install that as soon as possible
Yep, but the system problems are a Safari problem and not 64-bit windows problem. The developers of Safari, for whatever reason did not bother to test, identify, or fix any issues its browser might have running in a 64-bit system. That is fine, it is primarily meant to be a Mac browser and if they don’t care about people who want to run it on a Win64 system then that is their business. Software developers who want their software to continue running on Macs will certainly address any issues with a new or updated OS and the same applies to Apple and its software. Mac is not expected to completely maintain backwards compatibility and neither is MS.
Seems you knew about it before anyone else did.
7 is basically Vista with less bugs, so anything that crashes 7 is probably gonna spike Vista too.