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- inactive, on 07/07/2009, -4/+63"Many people think that the browser is starting to replace the operating system as the center of the personal computer. "
Not people with any common sense. The Cloud or whatever the ***** they will call it eventually will NEVER completely replace local storage. People and corporations are never going to trust their data to be solely on the internet. - twiztidsinz, on 07/07/2009, -0/+44This is the first time Fried and Wang have spoken in years.
- chedabob, on 07/07/2009, -0/+37I'm gonna burn the building down if somebody implies the browser will become the operating system one more time.
- jimminy, on 07/07/2009, -5/+36"Gazelle depends on Windows, acting merely as the middleman for Web pages seeking to access a computer's resources."
I specifically do not want web pages to access my computer's resources. - Bangaarang, on 07/07/2009, -1/+26You know you can disable that right?
- angusm, on 07/07/2009, -4/+25Translation: "Let's see those ***** in the EU try and disentangle this thing from the OS."
Alternative translation: "The browser is the new operating system, provided you don't want to do anything with your computer except download porn and funny kitten videos." - jonr, on 07/07/2009, -0/+20The browser will become the operating system....
Here is your Swingline, btw. - CaptSnuffy, on 07/07/2009, -1/+21dugg for wang
- 2winhe1ix, on 07/07/2009, -6/+24"It borrows much of its actual rendering technology from Internet Explorer itself" ... well there's your problem right there.
- inactive, on 07/07/2009, -1/+19Try telling that to our receptionist who just downloaded "Personal Antivirus" and I had to spend two hours removing the resulting trojan.
- TheNik, on 07/07/2009, -0/+17Somehow the Ubuntu logo as his avatar must have flown right over your head.
- CrimsonBlur, on 07/07/2009, -4/+20These comments suck.
- AmnesiacJack, on 07/07/2009, -10/+26Less is more, Microsoft.
- s1ade, on 07/07/2009, -1/+16What were you doing for the other 1.5 hours? Getting paid by the hour by any chance? :-p
- MasterQ, on 07/07/2009, -2/+16so microsoft wants to tightly integrate a web browser and operating system? I thought they already did that?
- splicerslicer, on 07/07/2009, -3/+16*rubs eyes* what's this about fried wangs?
- Kesereti, on 07/07/2009, -5/+16Oh, come on, it's Microsoft. It'll support MSPNG, which is exactly like PNG, except for a crypto signature in the header that does nothing but increase file size and ensure that only Microsoft-developed tools can create said images. ;)
- kernel16, on 07/07/2009, -0/+9***** you all, I want my data to physically remain at my house and not elsewhere on a server. I'll keep my OS and local apps thanks.
- danwallace, on 07/07/2009, -2/+11Uh, Vista and especially Windows 7 UAC is very useful. Not everyone is an IT expert, man. I am, so I turned it off with one simple click. A lot of people aren't, so they leave it on. What's the problem here?
- glitchbit, on 07/07/2009, -1/+9Kill the flash player!! Arrrrrgh!!
- ileftfark, on 07/07/2009, -0/+8I don't think everyone gets the joke, but that's pretty ***** hilarious.
From 'her' short bio: "During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft." - strad2, on 07/07/2009, -1/+8The browser doesn't have to "completely replace local storage" for that quote to be true - and yes, more and more apps will be run off the cloud. This way, you can access apps and documents from PCs, smartphones, or your TV - the device being more of a portal than anything. That of course doesn't mean local storage or local, rich apps will be wiped away "completely", but to deny the overall trend (or the advantages of the model) is absurd.
- specialK16, on 07/07/2009, -0/+7Not this ***** again.jpg. Your avatar seems quite appropriate.
- PopcornDave, on 07/07/2009, -0/+7That was my first thought too. MS has taken a beating over IE being an "integral" part of windows in the EU and now they're going to float this?
Do they have battered wife syndrome and never learn. - Twinnie, on 07/07/2009, -1/+8They already can access many of your computers resources. Gazelle is about applying to web apps the same amount of security that the OS applies to local apps, not just from a website in it's entirety, but actually between the individual elements on the page.
- fatfreddyscat, on 07/07/2009, -3/+10You'll first have to pry firefox out of my cold dead hands.
- Vulphaestion, on 07/07/2009, -0/+7You're confusing Microsoft for Apple.
- norman619, on 07/07/2009, -1/+7Why was your receptionist given the power to install anything? I never give users the ability to make any changes beyond setting wallpaper and small things like that. They never have the ability to install jack. We also control where usres can browse. These changes were made after months of ignoring my warnings due to the crappy security being emplyed on the network. After we got hit buy a virus which took us down for 2 weeks I was given the power to implement the suecurity which I felt was much needed. The only people who should have the power to make system changes or install are IT personnel. User access to the web should be controlled or at least monitored else you are begging to have your systems compromised.
- ohplease, on 07/07/2009, -1/+7But can it browse Crysis?
- inactive, on 07/07/2009, -1/+7@ s1ade:
The computer was shutting down every five minutes, and the three-year-old pieces of ***** take a good five minutes to start up.
@ norman:
It's a small company, and I'm just here for the summer to make some money before I move out of the house. Not really my call. - CrazedLeper, on 07/07/2009, -4/+10Except where control is concerned. More control is the likely goal, here.
- norman619, on 07/07/2009, -0/+5Much like how you are talking nonsense?
- shinkou, on 07/08/2009, -1/+6Apparently, they are looking for a way out so that they don't have to follow the standards, which is always their weakness.
- PinkyTheWinky, on 07/07/2009, -1/+6***** vague article about ***** non existent vague technology that seems neither interesting nor useful... seriously, do people see Microsoft Radical and then just Digg... WTF... buried
- punkcat, on 07/07/2009, -8/+13i just hope it can handle PNGs.
- SSUK, on 07/07/2009, -0/+4IE has supported PNG for a very, very long time. Properly supported? Well... That's on-going...
- jeffwmartin, on 07/07/2009, -0/+4"In short, Wang says, the browser needs to act more like Windows does--"
dugg for short wang - inactive, on 07/07/2009, -2/+6***** broke already and they haven't even started.
- puzzud, on 07/07/2009, -1/+5Ubuntu called and it wants it name back.
- PinkyTheWinky, on 07/07/2009, -0/+4"I'm not gay... I'm a woman!"
- kkiran, on 07/07/2009, -4/+8It is unfortunate that she is still in 2001 era! It is 2K9 and Web has evolved in a big way! HTML5 baby!
Wang isn't quite sure I believe. Their articles give little or no details at all! We now have powerful browsers like Chrome,FF and Safari! MS failed miserably with IE's incompatibilities and Gazelle is not going to change the web in any way since it is closely tied to Windows and it uses decades old buggy Windows code in it!
Boom boom bang bang Wang wang fried wang................ - kkiran, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3Only till its browser share totally dwindles down the internet drain!!!
- kgdoom, on 07/07/2009, -4/+7It's called Google Chrome and it was released over a year ago. Typical Microsoft approach to embrace/extend/exterminate...
- SpoonMSU, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3lol wut
- INTERNETMASTER, on 07/07/2009, -4/+7stupid idea
- designerutah, on 07/07/2009, -2/+5No, he's not. MS joins open source so they can get the specs, then they change them just enough not to violate the agreed upon copyright (like adding a large header and some other minor crap that doesn't change much but adds size), and then call it a different file type... like their WMV9... compared to MP4.
- inactive, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2I would, but pretty much everyone here is very computer-savvy. A lot of data entry people. The only one we'd be locking down would be the receptionist, and that's just not worth it.
- dragossh, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2Mojave Explorer.
- nextekcarl, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2What else would you use a computer for?
Oops, my bad. Make porn and funny kitten videos. Hopefully not at the same time, though. - stuartjmoore, on 07/07/2009, -1/+3Not stored solely on the internet, backed up and synced via the internet.
But the cloud != the browser being the center. Browsers eat up enough memory as it is, it's better to have native apps for a specific cloud purpose. -
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