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Google Chrome OS: Web Platform To Rule Them All
informationweek.com ^ | July 10, 2009 08:30 PM | Thomas Claburn

Posted on 07/11/2009 9:10:46 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

With Chrome OS, Google aims to make the Web the primary platform for software development.

Google (NSDQ: GOOG)'s plan to release its own operating system based on its Chrome browser is at once audacious and laughable. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Windows represents slightly less than 90% of the personal computer operating system market, a position it has held for years.

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: chrome; cloudcomputing; commiegoogle; google; googlesucks; hitech; intel; internet; microsoft; netbook
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To: aft_lizard
I fully understand your point and if they were only having trouble with IE, I would say that also. But in this case they have reported that they were also having trouble getting on Firefox which is not going to have the same plug-ins.
The way I read this is that they suddenly started having trouble accessing IE and after reading some of the recent posts here or on the advice of others, they installed Firefox which worked until the malware was able to cut Firefox from accessing the Internet. Remember the malware is already on the computer and is running, so Firefox is not immune in this case.
This is probably some sort of a malware infection that was downloaded from accessing an infected website and now it has taken over the network settings. THe fact that it goes nowhere is not all that uncommon in the history of malware.
Believe it or not one of the best tools for removing this type of malware comes from MS and it is the Malicious Software Removal tool which is free to download.
41 posted on 07/11/2009 10:54:47 AM PDT by Wooly
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To: Wooly

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


42 posted on 07/11/2009 10:54:49 AM PDT by parsifal ("Knock and ye shall receive!" (The Bible, somewhere.))
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To: parsifal

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

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/06/18/repair-and-reset-windows-vista-tcpip-winsock-catalog-corruption/


43 posted on 07/11/2009 10:59:57 AM PDT by Wooly
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To: parsifal

A cookie is not a viral...FR uses cookies I believe.


44 posted on 07/11/2009 11:01:55 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Yes if you delete your cookies you loose all your automatic logins like FR. That's ok if you remember all you user names and passwords for every site you are automatically logged into.

I'll look at MINT before I install Ubuntu.

45 posted on 07/11/2009 11:19:43 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't explain; your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyway)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

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...

http://www.zoho.com/


46 posted on 07/11/2009 4:04:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv
Never heard of them....but this is interesting:

Database software to create online database applications

Are you using some of their stuff?

47 posted on 07/11/2009 5:15:37 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

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.


48 posted on 07/11/2009 5:21:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Vermont Lt

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.


49 posted on 07/11/2009 5:26:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv
This just showed up on HardOCP:

Microsoft Research’s 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!

50 posted on 07/11/2009 5:31:41 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

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.


51 posted on 07/11/2009 5:32:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

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?


52 posted on 07/11/2009 5:34:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: All
More from Ars Technia:

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.

53 posted on 07/11/2009 5:37:06 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: SunkenCiv
$MS does limited free release....?

LOL!

54 posted on 07/11/2009 5:39:58 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

M$...


55 posted on 07/11/2009 7:45:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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