Safari freezes opening www.microsoft.com/surface/en-US

On this MBP 7,1, Safari is unable to open: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-US.

With each attempt, Safari freezes. Sometimes it will also display artifacts. Within moments of Safari's freeze, the system will become unresponsive to any input,. The only way to regain control is to shut down, then reboot.

Am unable to find any documentation of this event within the system's logs.

Neither FireFox nor Chrome has difficulty opening the above site. In all other respects, Safari and this machine have been performing without problem.

Have any of you experienced this?

Thanks,

JLS