Posted on 07/11/2009 9:10:46 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Google's industry ally, Apple, has managed to steal a few percentage points of market share away from Microsoft in the past twelve years under the singular leadership of CEO Steve Jobs. But Windows remains the dominant operating system, more dominant even than Google is in search.
And with the forthcoming release of Windows 7, Microsoft appears to be well-prepared to defend its empire.
It's hard to imagine a less promising business for Google to enter, especially given that Google plans to give Chrome OS away for free. And Google's grand plan to shake up the operating system market isn't made more credible by the absence of any actual programming code or substantive information about Chrome OS.
Yet, the fact that Google has partners that share its vision says something about the shakiness of Microsoft's position. Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba are all working with Google to help it re-imagine the operating system. So too is Intel, as The Register reports.
Google's decision to target the netbook market may help the prospects of Chrome OS. Although Microsoft has made a concerted effort to push Windows on netbooks to fend off low-cost Linux-based challengers, Google may find it easier to compete in the netbook market because access to cloud-based services and software is more valuable on devices .......
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Thank you for your help. I went to the site and ran the superspyware. One cookie found. is this the same thing as an antiviral?
parsy, the semi-computerilliterate
Also do a search for a tool called WinIPConfig download and run it to reset your IP Address. Also before you do the above do this
A cookie is not a viral...FR uses cookies I believe.
I'll look at MINT before I install Ubuntu.
IMHO, you’re right. And though we’ve all been told it’s going to happen, the big G is the first ones to make it work. And now, in the interest of equal time...
Database software to create online database applications
Are you using some of their stuff?
Nope. I spend literally all my computer “facetime” online, and 90+ per cent of that on FR. As you’ve probably noticed, eh? I forget how I heard about it, but saved a link on the bar of my browser.
Heh... for that matter, Netscape ruled, then got “Microsofted” when MS started integrating its Aiiiee! browser — the very bundling which landed it in court (twice, I believe). Netscape wound up acquired by AOL, which at the time still had a contract with MS for AOL browser updates for another couple of years. The revenge (of sorts) was Netscape’s browser/mail/etc package revival and evolution into FireFox.
Microsoft Researchs Gazelle the Browser OS
Microsoft Research recently published a paper about an experimental browser named "Gazelle." The browser was called an experimental "multi-principal" OS that "uses processes to isolate page content elements originating from different domains." Um.. right!
Oh, and let’s not forget OpenOffice. My best friend had to have the nerd or geek or something come in, pull the CPU, take it off to do the data transfer onto a new drive (he could have just asked me, but whatever), and reinstall the OS from my friend’s CDs. Friend had been using MS Office, but apparently it was (ahem) unauthorized, as he tried the old, “I can’t seem to find my disks, but can you reinstall it without them?” line of bull. Of course it did not work (obviously the kid technician has *no future prospects* as a cable TV employee), so I pointed my friend in the direction of OpenOffice, and he d/led and installed it himself, had no trouble, thought it ran noticeably faster than MS’s, and also has been impressed by the unobtrusive and non-system-breaking automatic software updates.
I wonder if there’s a “SoftOCP” for after the HardOCP gets done workin’ me over?
;’)
This looks like one of the new-look MS internal projects that was flagged for limited free release?
Inside Gazelle, Microsoft Research's "browser OS"
Wang's characterization of Gazelle as a "multi-principal operating system" for the Web has been widely misinterpreted by the press. Although Gazelle's architecture is loosely modeled on the underlying concepts of operating system design, it is not actually an operating system, it's not intended to replace Windows, and it won't compete with Chrome OS. It is a browser prototype that runs on Windows Vista, is coded in C#, and has a conventional user interface that is built with .NET's WinForms framework.
Multiprocess browsing, which is supported in Google's Chrome Web browser and recent versions of Internet Explorer, uses separate operating system processes to isolate the rendering of individual pages. As we have recently discussed in our coverage of multiprocess browsing, this approach generally boosts security and stability. It prevents a rendering bug that affects a specific page or plugin from tanking the whole browser.
Multiprocess browsing is advantageous, but it does have some downsides. Processes tend to generate a lot of resource overhead, especially on Windows. In order to minimize the impact of using multiple processes, Chrome and IE try to use some number of processes that provides a good balance between resource efficiency and stability. For example, if you have multiple tabs open that show different pages from the same website, the browser might put them all into one process.
The Gazelle project casts aside that balance and aims to maximize security and stability by using more processes. Instead of just using a separate process for each site or tab, it will use separate processes for individual page content elements that originate from other domains. For example, if you have an iframe in a page, the iframe will be managed and rendered in its own process separate from the rest of the page.
Gazelle uses interprocess communication (IPC) to facilitate interaction between the various pieces of the browser. All communication is mediated by the browser's "kernel," a central component that is also responsible for handling the browser's user interface. All network and filseystem operations such as loading and caching are handled directly by the kernel.
LOL!
M$...
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