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Microsoft's Internet Explorer, after years of neglect, has seen welcome upgrades lately, including color-coded tabs and private browsing. But competing browsers (Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome) have advanced further.
The new browser wars on on. More than a decade after Microsoft killed off Netscape with Internet Explorer, competition in the browser market has never been stronger. Just last week , Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 , which has now been downloaded nearly 14 million times. Earlier in June , Apple released Safari 4 . In March, Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer 8 , and Google came out with a ...
That Google Chrome OS counter Microsoft was supposedly working on could be this Gazelle browser, which wants to treat the browser more like an OS. The Gazelle prototype is supposed to do stuff like...
Google has recently announced that it is doing some interesting arithmetic, that is Google Chrome the Web browser plus Linux equals only Google Chrome. While I find the math somewhat suspect, I understand their goal. Google wants to unseat Microsoft as the primary on-ramp to web-based or cloud computing applications....
MakeTechEasier: "For those who are tempted to use Google Chrome, but are concerned about your privacy being recorded by Google, you can stop worrying now. Iron browser is an exact clone of Google Chrome, without the privacy annoyance features"
A browser tracking service shows IE slipping and Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari, and Google's Chrome making gains, but don't call it a trend yet.
Google dropped a major bombshell earlier this evening: they’re launching their own operating system , known as Google Chrome OS. The new operating system will be lightweight, is based off its Chrome browser, and is clearly Google’s challenge to Microsoft’s longstanding domination of the OS market. While we’re still trying to catch our breath over the announcement, we can’t say we’re particularly ...
While Chrome OS is still a pretty rough sketch in our mind's eye, the Google boys have hosted a press conference to answer a few burning questions. Among the myriad revelations, it turns out Eric Schmidt wasn't stoked on building a browser when Sergey Brin and Larry Page brought it up about six years ago, given the fact that Google was still relatively small, and the browser wars were still ...
Microsoft plans to combat Internet attacks under way by plugging three critical Windows security holes in next week's Patch Tuesday. Apple also fixed some bugs with an update to its Safari Web browser. One of the Patch Tuesday updates will plug a zero-day vulnerability within Microsoft TV Technologies that can be exploited through Internet Explorer. Microsoft TV Technologies is an ActiveX ...
Google has always been a threat to Microsoft. After unseating the software giant from the browser space, Google began hammering Microsoft's position in Web mail, chipping away at Office's features, and then pushing into the competitive browser market. Now Google is bringing out the big guns with Chrome OS, a cloud-based operating system clearly aimed at taking out Microsoft's main fortress, ...
Google announced a new project that it says is a natural extension of the Google Chrome browser (www.google.com/chrome)—the Google Chrome Operating System. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year, Google will open source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the ...
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