Browser wars?
I have been interested in “the cloud” for a while, having recently employed Amazon S3’s services to great effect, as well as read a little about Amazon’s EC2 and Apache’s Hadoop. So I have been following the browser wars and Google’s Chrome entry to the market and all the industry commentary with interest.
What has this to do with cloud computing? Well, if the current trend for ‘Software as a service’ really delivers, then which browser you are using is going to be much more important than it currently is – the really interesting part of this for me as a developer is that Google appear to have made each tab run as a separate process. But re-engineering the tab processes is something existing market players could resolve with their own browsers should the need arise – with some difficulty, yes, but definitely within the realms of possibility for gifted software engineering teams.
Initial reports on Chrome don’t seem all that favourable, and it really doesn’t appear to contain the ‘killer app‘ which might make those outside the technology industry adopt it. I would wager that Google have a very valid reason for bringing a new browser to the market, and I can’t believe that making the JavaScript engine 10% faster is what it’s really all about. But at the end of the day, Chrome is totally dependant on whichever OS it’s being run on and suggestions that Google is targeting Windows as opposed to IE are way wide of the mark for the moment.
With thanks to El Reg, who made me reconsider my initial post.
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