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At what point does the browser become an "os", what's next? Chrome hypervisor?
by zeusk 5y ago
At what point does the browser become an "os", what's next? Chrome hypervisor?
- dmitrygr 5y agoIt happened about a decade ago.
- tentacleuno 5y agoNot sure what you mean by hypervisor, but Microsoft does have... Microsoft Defender Application Guard, I believe it's called. It's a totally sandboxed version of Edge.
- runeks 5y ago> At what point does the browser become an "os", what's next? When it no longer requires an OS to run.
- enos_feedler 5y agoSo ChromeOS
- runeks 5y agoChromeOS is Linux
- sva_ 5y agoI'd be much more willing to execute some binary in my browser than directly on my OS. Sure, you could do a VM or so, but a browser tab is spun up much more quickly. The absence of friction of just executing something quickly, and being able to share it with a single text string, is what makes this appealing to people, I reckon. I dunno why people seemingly get offended by this.