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09/07/2009 01:00:04
 
 
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08/07/2009 13:40:44
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Browsers
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>I'm curious to know what's the proportion of PC users who only use their PC just for browsing the web.
>
>>Microsoft is starting to feel some heat....
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>>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
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>>The very thing they were terrified of in 1996 (in the form of Netscape the OS....), has now come to fruition at Google...

Google is assembling various pieces for doing a *lot* more than just browsing, within a browser e.g. the Google Native Client: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client

While that's currently for x86, maybe they could do something similar for ARM, or provide an emulator. Running x86 code on ARM - MS would have to be concerned about that.
Regards. Al

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