dagblog - Comments for "Google vs Microsoft: Attack of the Chrome"

Yeah, I'm pretty sure we're

Nebton — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:03:00 +0000

Yeah, I'm pretty sure we're past that point. My prediction sunk the thread. Sorry, Genghis.

I take it that you're not a

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:04:00 +0000

I take it that you're not a Google stockholder. :) These are fair points. Google is already overstretched.

I do want to add this: Nebton rocks. He's figured out that there's a bug on dagblog that lets him edit other people's comments.

It's just plain silly for

DC Bound — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:27:16 +0000

In reply to Google vs Microsoft: Attack of the Chrome

It's just plain silly for Google to claim that they can compete in the OS market. C'mon. They can hardly keep up with the non-advertising and non-search challenges that they've alraedy tried to take on. Google sites are a mess...you can't even search within them. Chrome is still only avaiable for PC...and cross-platform is a key selling point of their proposed OS. Frankly, I am hearing echos of similar claims made by Adobe ("Air") or the various phone OS projects: might be nice as a delivery platform, but not a full-fledged OS.

I'm going to add another

DC Bound — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:23:53 +0000

In reply to Or with the death of beloved

I'm going to add another comment just to help Nebton's prediction. Good luck.

Chrome crashes once in a

Orlando — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:45:19 +0000

In reply to Right, the buzz over the

Chrome crashes once in a while and for some sites it doesn't play to video, but otherwise, I like the navigation a lot.

Right, the buzz over the

acanuck — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:36:38 +0000

In reply to Sorry, I meant the chrome

Right, the buzz over the Chrome OS sorta overwhelmed discussion of the browser. Firefox is more appealing to me because 3.5 builds on an already very solid base; Chrome is relatively untested.

As for dumping IE, it's as good as done; I always knew it sucked, but I could tolerate previous versions. I think they rushed the release of IE 8 because of what their rivals were doing, and it's backfiring badly.

Sorry, I meant the chrome

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:19:16 +0000

In reply to If I get your drift, Genghis,

Sorry, I meant the chrome browser: http://www.google.com/chrome. The chrome OS is not released and won't be for a while. I don't use the browser b/c I have a mac, but I've heard good things. Of course, firefox is also good. IE sucks. Dump it.

If I get your drift, Genghis,

acanuck — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:04:36 +0000

In reply to What about Chrome? :)

If I get your drift, Genghis, you're asking why, if I'm so pissed off at IE 8, I don't just dump Microsoft altogether. Because Chrome is untried, and XP does a passable job, and changing operating systems seems a bit riskier than switching browsers. Maybe down the road, if Microsoft tries to force me to buy Windows 7 or 8 by sabotaging its previous OSes, I'll move to some open-source system.

But for now, not everything Microsoft puts out is necessarily crap. I use Outlook Express for email, though I did switch to Open Office for text. Google, on the other hand, supplies my home page (Google News), default search engine, web albums and photo archive (Picasa), and internet telephony (Skype). As long as they all play nice together and don't wage turf wars inside my PC, I'm cool with the eclectic mix.

What about Chrome? :)

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:18:17 +0000

In reply to Carl, I appreciate your

What about Chrome? :)

Carl, I appreciate your

acanuck — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:02:09 +0000

In reply to As much as I like and enjoy

Carl, I appreciate your honesty in telling us where you work (presumably not for Google).

Your criticism of Google seems to be based on what you expect it to do once it "puts Microsoft out of business." Aren't you getting a bit ahead of yourself? Microsoft is big enough and rich enough to defend itself, and has never shied from using brass knuckles or a shiv on its often smaller rivals. So far, it looks like healthy competition to me.

I question your objectivity when, in your first sentence, you both question Google's ethics and praise Ask and Bing. ASK? I haven't tried Bing, but I'm amazed you can say anything positive about Ask, which simply installs itself surreptitiously on your machine and is hard as hell to remove. That's not software, it's a virus.

One last thing: I foolishly upgraded to Internet Explorer 8 recently. Balky, buggy piece of crap. Firefox, here I come!