Not bad for a browser that’s less than a year old.Īnd now, WOW. The Chrome browser now has 30 million active users, says Google, and tracking services say it has 6% or so market share. Still, the writing was on the wall – Google quite clearly saw Chrome as an operating system that competes with Windows.įast forward to today. It is, you could say, sans the bag of drivers needed to meet the definition. Sure, they were right – the Chrome browser isn’t an operating system. Purists complained that a browser isn’t actually an operating system, and brought up mundane issues about hardware drivers, memory and processor management, and other red herrings. Fortunately, El Reg readers are with it enough to know that you need a proper OS before you can have a browser.” One representative response to my quote above, from The Register: “In no way can this statement be construed to make sense, and I’m not just being a pedantic asshole here. From that article:Ĭhrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows…Expect to see millions of web devices, even desktop web devices, in the coming years that completely strip out the Windows layer and use the browser as the only operating system the user needs. Last year I wrote a post about the just launched Chrome browser titled Meet Chrome, Google’s Windows Killer. It’s hard to type a blog post when one hand is being used to pat myself on the back.
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