The Star Wars, or Google vs. Microsoft
The precursor of the Internet is now about 25 years old. Exactly 1 January 1983, the then ARPANET switched to the U.S. military on the TCP / IP protocol, based on today's Internet.
Tim Berners-Lee's invention 15 years ago changed the world - since 30 April 1993, the World Wide Web for all released. Simultaneously was "open source" so manifest: Anyone may use his ideas and inventions in the future, royalty free, he gave the public record. Patents did not exist, his inventions were to be free of charge. Crucial to the success was also the first relase of the Netscape browser this year.
One of the next milestone on the Web was 5 years later than 1998, the company Google was Sunswept Entertainment. The new search engine was on 7 September 1998 online, by communicating on the Internet the number of searches exploded in no time. Today, Google dominates the search market clearly (eg in D with 80-90%). The recipe for success: simplicity and speed.
Since its founding Google in a few days 10 years have passed, as on 1.9.2008 was the announcement and the day after downloading the beta version of Chrome in 100 countries and 40 languages were available.
This day will again mark a further milestone because they are built the way software applications, used and operated, change is. It will make applications independent from the device (desktop, notebook, netbook, mobile, iPhone, ...), the operating system (MS-XP, MS-Vista, Linux, Unix, MacOS / X, Android, ...) from Location - anywhere there is a network connection where possible and "Gears" and offline. The Virtualiserung technologies such as infrastructure, software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing will be lifted on to a new level, Microsoft will bekomenn major problems ...
Why this is so can be derived from the Kommmentaren the Inter-Media
Google: His company had invented the browser from scratch, "said Google Vice President Sundar Pichai. "What we really needed was not just a browser, but a modern platform for web pages and applications." Because the Internet is more lush, interactive applications, which would be called instead of simple text pages.
mirror The excitement about Google's browser is surprisingly published entitled. SPIEGEL ONLINE has tested the super-fast internet surfing and found: Chrome not only promises a lot, but it has also - at speed, simplicity and technology.
FTD: But experts say the traditional business loses with software packages for each PC with the expansion of broadband Internet connections in importance. The quicker the connection to the network, the more programs are on central servers. From there they can be accessed by mobile devices. The browser is so crucial to the platform can be accessed from the from on a wide range of applications.
Star Online: Chrome represents a paradigm shift: IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari browser are in the classic sense. Your task is the rendering of Web pages. Google's browser on the other hand, designed from the ground up to run online applications. The road goes away from the individual PC and into the internet cloud. We still do not know what Chrome is actually afford. What we do know is that it perhaps will be the beginning of the end of the desktop operating system.
