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> First, Microsoft was fighting against the whole concept of a browser as separate from its OS you mean, just like the Good Guy ChromeOS?
by ikari_pl 3y ago
> First, Microsoft was fighting against the whole concept of a browser as separate from its OS
you mean, just like the Good Guy ChromeOS?
- amadeuspagel 3y agoYou can install other browsers on ChromeOS in the Linux VM.
- lupusreal 3y agoIt feels like your comment is about 10 years too late, most people here are now very sour towards Google. They no longer have their sterling "good guy" reputation.
- ikari_pl 3y agoYes, it was a little sarcastic and under an article about Internet Explorer, which isn't exactly the number one public enemy anymore either. A few thoughts: At some point, the ideas of a browser, and an OS, seemed to converge a lot - expose more of the machine to the browser (webapps), provide task and memory management for the sites and webapps... More and more functionality overlapped. From that point of view, maybe the argument to see them as connected made a lot of sense - the deeper the integration, the less double work might be happening, maybe. The cost, however, is always portability, or at least interoperability. But as much as "having common code everywhere is good", I think switching all browsers to Chromium is not the way to go either.