Bill Gates Expresses His Thoughts About Chrome OS

 

Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, has already expressed his negative thoughts towards Google’s Chrome OS and now Bill Gates has taken a shot at the upcoming operating system. In an interview with CNET Gates described Chrome OS as just another Linux distribution.

"there's many, many forms of Linux operating systems out there and packaged in different ways and booted in different ways," adding that, "in some ways I am surprised people are acting like there's something new. I mean, you've got Android running on Netbooks. It's got a browser in it."

Gates went on to take another shot at Google by saying that “the more vague they are, the more interesting it is," before getting a little philosophical by asking: "What's a browser? What's not a browser?" His answer? "In large part, it's more an abuse of terminology than a real change."

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Alleged Chrome OS Screenshots Leaked

Another set of unverified screenshots of Chrome OS has been leaked to the internet. An Engadget tipster says most applications run on the internet. Picasa runs locally for photo and movie viewing, and the "System" tab displays the contents of SD cards and digital cameras. Though this image is probably fake, it is interesting. The screenshots are below, tell us what you think by commenting below.

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Is Internet Explorer 8 Really the Worlds Fastest Browser?

Internet Explorer 8 is Microsoft's newest version of the popular browser. For a few years now Mozilla’s Firefox has been claiming that it is the worlds fastest browser but it now looks like Internet Explorer 8 has stripped the title from Mozilla.

When Internet Explorer 7, and Firefox 2 were released in 2006 the speed difference between the two browsers where only a few milliseconds. Both companies where determined to create the fastest browser. Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8 released within weeks of each other with both having many innovative features, and both having an incredible speed increase.

The video below shows how you need a high speed camera to catch the speed difference between Firefox 3, Chrome and Internet Explorer 8.

The results show that Internet Explorer 8 loads fastest on:

• 5 of the top 10 most popular websites
• 12 of the top 25 most popular websites
• 3 times as fast as Firefox
• 1/3 times as fast as chrome

 

Safari, Oprah and other browsers where not shown because they are no where as close as fast as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome.

It seems like Microsoft has beaten Firefox this time, but lets see how secure these browsers are.

Tripp Zao

May 5 2009

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