news.cnet.com— In an exclusive interview, CNET News' Ina Fried talks with Helen Wang, the researcher behind Microsoft's Gazelle effort, which aims to make the browser more like an operating system.
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Uh, 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?
"Most individuals, maybe. Most companies? Not even close."Yes but, from Microsoft's perspective, "most individuals" is a very important quantity...
The browser can provide an interface for locally hosted applications. Any PC can run Apache. This is the norm in Linux. Windows apps will go this direction eventually. Once you install a web based app its always accessible from any device on your home network even if your not connected to the net. If you are connected you get ubiquitous access to data directly on your home PC. I think these types of apps have a lot of promise. Ever seen utorrent's webui?
Nah, I want MS to just scrap any involvement in conventional OSs.Microsoft has lost me forever with Windows. (Okay, I am on XPsp3 - for now)...not because the operating systems they produce are bloated, full of holes, inefficient and buggy, but because they dare charge us so much for the right to use those crappy products. (W7 is a bit of an exception - in quality, not price).A breakdown of MS's costs show the pricing of their products as <del>semi reasonable</del> semi justifiable, until you take into consideration what a mismanaged and inefficient organisation it really is. Plus they seem to have absolutely no foresight in comparison with Google, Mozilla etcSo basically, I'll give MS a chance to compete (Gazelle vs Chrome OS). But I think most of us already know who is going to produce a better product...
danwallaceJul 7, 2009
Uh, 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?
strad2Jul 7, 2009
"Most individuals, maybe. Most companies? Not even close."Yes but, from Microsoft's perspective, "most individuals" is a very important quantity...
stuffradioJul 7, 2009
WHOOSH!
snafoo972Jul 8, 2009
The browser can provide an interface for locally hosted applications. Any PC can run Apache. This is the norm in Linux. Windows apps will go this direction eventually. Once you install a web based app its always accessible from any device on your home network even if your not connected to the net. If you are connected you get ubiquitous access to data directly on your home PC. I think these types of apps have a lot of promise. Ever seen utorrent's webui?
goddardcJul 8, 2009
Nah, I want MS to just scrap any involvement in conventional OSs.Microsoft has lost me forever with Windows. (Okay, I am on XPsp3 - for now)...not because the operating systems they produce are bloated, full of holes, inefficient and buggy, but because they dare charge us so much for the right to use those crappy products. (W7 is a bit of an exception - in quality, not price).A breakdown of MS's costs show the pricing of their products as <del>semi reasonable</del> semi justifiable, until you take into consideration what a mismanaged and inefficient organisation it really is. Plus they seem to have absolutely no foresight in comparison with Google, Mozilla etcSo basically, I'll give MS a chance to compete (Gazelle vs Chrome OS). But I think most of us already know who is going to produce a better product...
gordigorJul 27, 2009
Ina still looks like a guy.