Ofcourse, I'm about a week late in rejoicing.
I visited the pcmag.com home page this morning and lo and behold! There was this article on the Apple Safari 3 beta for Windows. I promptly installed it and within a few minutes it has become my default browser.
There's only one word that I have for the Safari browser as of now - awesome! The pages do indeed load much faster. And the interface is absolutely out of this world - press CTRL-D to bookmark a page and a panel "flips" out from top of the browser to ask you where you want to add the bookmark!
And I would say that the inline page find (go ahead, press CTRL-F and then type in some text - see what happens) on its own makes it worth having Safari as your default browser.
Though Apple has not created an "official" extensions architecture for Safari it does have several extensions available (see www.pimpmysafari.com) like Firefox. I'm not sure if these work on the Windows avatar as well, need to check some out soon.
Finally there's one thing I need to ask of Apple (that is, if they read this blog!) - what took you so long? Come on, release Windows versions of the other great Apple software out there. I can't wait to use GarageBand and Pages 2 on Windows.
Or perhaps you just want all of us to buy the Intel Macs after drooling on iTunes and Safari, dreaming about the better life that awaits us...
