Apple software update on Windows
Joe Wilcox has a piece here where he talks about how Windows iTunes owners are being prompted to install Safari 3.1 by Apple Software Update even though they haven’t installed any version of Safari on their Windows PC before.
I’ve had Safari 3 for Windows installed for quite a while at work as a test platform. Occasionally, until I told Apple Software Update to shut up, it would prompt me to install iTunes + QuickTime since I didn’t have it installed. So it’s not that Apple is pushing Safari specifically through Apple Software Update, it’s pushing Apple Software period. Which seems to be the same thing as Windows Update. I don’t see it as particularly aggressive. The Google Pack updater will suggest other items that you haven’t installed yet. It just seems to be the way smart software updaters work.
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