You may have heard that Apple announced the beta of their Safari web browser for Windows yesterday. If you’ve used Safari on the Mac before, don’t compare this new version to that one. The last version of Safari was released almost two years ago. The new version, Safari 3, which will be available for the Mac and Windows around October, is really fast; twice as fast as Internet Explorer.

In particular, Safari 3 has some major improvements in its JavaScript engine which makes Ajax-heavy applications like Mailroom really screams.

Unfortunately the current beta includes some bugs that break parts of Mailroom so I can’t recommend it to you quite yet. However, those bugs have been fixed for the final version of Safari that will be released later this year. When it does come out, whether you use a Mac or Windows, I highly suggest you give it a try.