Boss you signed up for Sandbox access to GWave?

[somebody]

This was a bit cheeky

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/n...ser-plugin.ars

Basically if MS won't support HTML 5 well lets allow site developers to force (or at least encourage) IE to use Google's Chrome rendering engine


Jim

If you go to use GWave if you log in via Internet explorer you will see a screen saying either use one of these browsers chrome safari or firefox or download this plug in google chrome plugin or you can try it without and oh lordy is it slow if you try ie 7.

Google and Apple are gunning for MS and know most people are not power users they may have a smartphone and some form of netbook or laptop maybe even a PC.
But many are seeing either google with its free and opensource products (I think they were saying after Nokia symbian/mameo in a few years Android from no where is going to be the biggest OS on smartphones) or Apple if your prepared to pay a little more for a nice UI etc.

MS are stuck in the middle they cant make systems as user friendly/flawless as Apples unless they make MS brand pc's surely and if they compete with google and give the OS away. Whatever they choose they will need to rethink
what they do next.

Im also convinced to a degree Win 7 will only really break into the office market rapidly if consumers start to use it and I think google know this and why its rushing to get chrome out.


With google Chrome os I could see MS seeing a sharp reduction in its usage in the home pc/netbook market if the OS is free even if not perfect if it does youtube, wave and social media, IM and browse the interweb and lets you read and create documents. How many people use google as their homepage?

People will then be familar with XP and chrome at home but wont be intrested in learning a third UI surely? They also wont be nagging IT for that new windows...

Many say why Vista failed to enter the office market was partly due to users having such terrible experiences on home pc's so there was no nagging or asking why we not using Vista.

[darren-b]

Many say why Vista failed to enter the office market was partly due to users having such terrible experiences on home pc's so there was no nagging or asking why we not using Vista.

I agree. Had been running Vista on my home laptop for a couple of years, and really wouldn't it to replace the XP build on my work laptop which was rock solid. Been running Win 7 instead of Vista for a few months now and a totally different experience - actually got a couple of copies on order.

The company I work for with 10s of thousands of office pcs/laptops which isn't usually the quickest to change the build of the office pcs/laptops has already got Win 7 builds being trialled with the intention of rolling out Win 7 to replace XP next year.

[somebody]

I agree. Had been running Vista on my home laptop for a couple of years, and really wouldn't it to replace the XP build on my work laptop which was rock solid. Been running Win 7 instead of Vista for a few months now and a totally different experience - actually got a couple of copies on order.

The company I work for with 10s of thousands of office pcs/laptops which isn't usually the quickest to change the build of the office pcs/laptops has already got Win 7 builds being trialled with the intention of rolling out Win 7 to replace XP next year.

MS from what i hear have huge teams of Migration specialists with loads of software tools to assit teams with roll outs. They are been thrown at our Network architectiture team I understand.

I think MS are hoping the second Wave of the Credit Crunch predicted by the Germans Today and many others previously doesn't come to pass otherwise if people batten down the hatchs for a year or two the market will have changed a great deal.