On 2008-09-04, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Does Windows Still Matter?
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>| ?Chrome is not going to replace Windows. A computer requires an operating
>| system such as Windows, Apple?s OS X or Linux to make the machine work.
>| It does, however, have the potential to do what Mr. Gates feared: make
>| the choice of operating system less important.?
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>| So writes John Gapper, the fine columnist for The Financial Times in today?s
>| paper. Chrome, of course, is Google?s new browser, which is pretty explicitly
>| designed to be a Windows killer. As Mr. Gapper notes, that precise fear ?
>| that an Internet browser could become such a powerful platform for
>| applications software that it would effectively take over the function of the
>| operating system ? is what caused Microsoft to start the browser wars in the
>| 1990s, effectively putting Netscape out of business.
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> http://executivesuite.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/does-windows-still-matter/?hp
> http://tinyurl.com/6cqbhm
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Yep... You know, MS may just do what they did with Netscape here - pour tons
of cash into IE and actually advance it. And it wouldn't take much work...
About the only thing that I see that Chrome has (I haven't had a chance to try
it, because the install refuses to work on my test machine) that IE or FireFox
don't have is a fast JavaScript engine.... And that because it is JIT
compiled - wait, MS has had such an animal since 2000. It's the JScript
engine in .NET :) A little tweaking and host it in IE and they're done.
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Tom Shelton
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