When I began writing this entry, I was listening to The Chris Pirillo Show. More specifically, I am listening to his inteview with Robert McLaw. Robert is a Microsoft VIP and is one of the writers for Longhorn blogs. It is a good interview and I would suggest you download part one and part two and give the whole interview a listen. They discuss many thing, mostly longhorn and x64 processors. I actually listened to the entire interview twice so that I could adequately take notes.
One of the things which caught my ear was that there are rumors that Google may be releasing a browser. Apparently these rumors have been circulating for quite some time.
I think this would be a great thing. I feel that competition makes products better. Internet Exploder started to suck when it had most of the market. I am, personally, a diehard Firefox user. I don't know what percent of the market Micro$oft claims to have but only 24% of the visitors to my site use it and Firefox users are at 44%. I like that. Nice to see the good guys get one.
It seems that Google has even registered gbrowser.com and there seems to be much buzz elsewhere about it as well.
Lumpy hopes it is true.
Comments (3)
Hell yeah! While I would prefer Gbrowser not take market share from Firefox, I think it will hit IE more than FF. FF is taking over, but it is open source and free, oh, and not evil.
Posted by Geek | May 27, 2005 4:45 AM
Posted on May 27, 2005 04:45
I also heard at the same time that the people at Google had hired the guy who wrote the main code for Gecko (the engine behind FF) and that they also were throwing around the idea of building their own OS... based on Linspire (that used to be called Lindows)...
Posted by anothergeek | May 27, 2005 11:00 AM
Posted on May 27, 2005 11:00
Notice the Created On date. It certainly isn't something they thought about just recently.
Registrant:
Google Inc. (DOM-1278108)
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 US
Domain Name: gbrowser.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com
Administrative Contact:
DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 US
dns-admin@google.com +1.6503300100 Fax- +1.6506188571
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 US
dns-admin@google.com +1.6503300100 Fax- +1.6506188571
Created on..............: 2004-Apr-26.
Expires on..............: 2006-Apr-26.
Record last updated on..: 2004-Apr-26 16:46:39.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.ALLDOMAINS.COM
NS2.ALLDOMAINS.COM
Posted by natey | May 28, 2005 11:37 AM
Posted on May 28, 2005 11:37