I can't speak for anybody else, but the bugs found in the beta copy of Safari on Windows work on the production copy on OS X as well," he said in a posting on the Errata site. "The exploit is robust mostly thanks to the lack of any kind of advanced security features in [Mac] OS X."
I always laugh at that kind of stuff. From all the reading that I’ve seen from some so-called experts, is that the Macintosh operating system is the most insecure thing around — and yet, we see 114,000 Windows viruses and none on the Macintosh side. All, I’ve got to say about that is let me know when they get five or ten viruses, much less 114,000 of them...
And then, someone says, well, they’re coming — and yet, for the last 21 years, I’ve only ran into one single virus — ever. And I’ve never gotten a single peep out of my antivirus software, ever (for the Macintosh), in all the years that the Mac OS X operating system has been out (many years, so far).
So, they can keep telling me what kind of great problems I’m going to have, while I enjoy what I’ve experienced in the last 21 years.
As far as any bugs in software, I usually let developers work out their bugs with further revisions. I like getting newer versions after they’ve gone through a few “dot” increments.
And anyone who wants to go with “beta software” — well.., they can have at it. I’ll go for the finished and completed versions. I can’t complain about problems in beta software.