Originally Posted by wizard 
Looks like MS is beginning to have some real competition off the shelf :-)
Sony Viaos will ship with Google Chrome, which is a slap in the face to Bill Gates. The reason Internet Explorer is so popular is that it's free with the computer: most people don't know enough about that sort of thing to switch browsers. That's why people still use IE6 (don't
even get me started). Microsoft has taken advantage of
user laziness for a generation, but now Google is horning in on Redmond's racket. If this doesn't light a fire under Microsoft's ass to develop better software, then I don't know what will.
http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/son...-google-chrome
Hmmmm! For almost a decade now, the doomsday of Microsoft has been predicted with 'certainty', yet Microsoft has not died. If anything, they still remain the world's largest and most profitable software company.
To understand the recent play of Sony in agreeing to pre-install their Vaio computers with Google's Chrome browser, you have to properly appreciate the angling and jostling currently afoot for e-book devices. Sony is trying to compete with Amazon's kindle. Sony does not have the sort of web presence and library that Amazon has. Google has a massive web presence and has scanned and digitized millions of volumes of books into their servers.
Therefore, Sony figured that it could team up with Google, so that Google will provide it with it's digital books. In exchange, Sony agreed to pre-install Chrome on their computers.
Now, Sony's share of the Personal computer market is quite tiny, compared to behemoths like HP, Dell, & Toshiba. Therefore this move on their part will have very limited impact on the overall scheme of things.
ISL writes:
My understanding is that the big advantage of chrome is that it is not just multi threaded, but multi processed.
Each tab has its own process and can therefore be shutdown in the event of a crash, without bringing down the whole browser. IE isn't even multi threaded, one misbehaving tab brings down the whole browser.
my favorite feature of Chrome is the way it lists a thumbnail of all open tabs on one page, upon launch
Dude, go try IE8, the latest browser from Microsoft. It is NOW "multi processed" & "multi threaded" as well. Pound-for-pound, it is also one of the safest browsers out there, in terms of security. Also, you cannot discount the fact that being a Microsoft product, it is very tightly-woven with Windows operating System. Google Chrome advocates claim that IE8 is slower than Chrome. While that may be so, the truth is that in real-life use, the differences are so imperceptible, to the point of being indistinguishable.
The bigger story is that Google is trying to make a broad play for cloud-computing, and to that end, they are designing their own entire operating system from the ground up, which they claim will be browser-based. Once again, folks are 'prophesying' the end of Microsoft-dominated Windows operating System.
Well, Microsoft is not exactly resting on it's oars, so we shall see. Personally, i believe that this cloud-computing business has been way over-hyped. Security and privacy remain one of the biggest fears and concerns of cloud-computing. In reality, at the end of the day, a hybrid of sorts is what will exist; people and companies will have SOME of their data online, the remaining will be stored in servers/computers under their own direct, physical control. Companies with mission-critical information and processes will NOT entrust their company secrets to Google to manage, period.
Microsoft knows this, which is why they've been making strategic maneuvers to deliver 'hybridized solutions' for their customers, especially those with the deepest pockets (and from where they can make the most money); fortune 500 hundred companies.
And the beat goes on....
DW
Sony Viaos to ship with google chrome 
, you disappoint big time specially when i was already thinking dat you have arrived and can take your rightful accolade/
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