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Google's Chrome Sounds Like 1970s Pressure Cooker

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Your posting makes my head spin. Why should I know how microwave oven is made or care what tech standards geeks like or do not like to follow.

To me, it is just another microwave oven. I am sure that it has its own share of gizmos, but....

It's a microwave oven with Google brand name on it!

Ughh, I am as excited as seeing another episode of Gilligan's island.

Google's Chrome Sounds Like 1970s Pressure Cooker

Google!

If you can't innovate with all your money, then invest it to some startups who are willing to take risks and eager to innovate!

We don't want another brand of refrigerator!

Google's Chrome Sounds Like 1970s Pressure Cooker

Browser war? If I remember correctly, there was a browser war 10 years ago between Microsoft and Netscape. Back then, browser was top-of-the-line software technology.

But, it was 10 years ago! It's a commodity technology now.

Google. Please wake up. Use precious American engineers' brain resource for innovation, not evil politics!

Google. Stop trying to make software version of microwave, refrigerator, ovens, etc. Microsoft already does a darn good job in that.

You are wasting American minds with those commodity technology development! Mind is awful thing to waste.

Meet Chrome - Google's Windows Killer

I am an average PC user and use PC all the time like most every one else who work in a corporate world. The fact is that I never shut down my PC and leave it on even when I go for a long vacation. The XP keeps on going and going and going. I don't even think about what OS I am using and it's just there all the time working in the background. That's what OS is supposed to do. XP does a darn good job in that. That technology was achieved years ago and still big US tech companies like Google drain US brain resources in those nearly commodity techs.

While US tech companies are zero-sum no-tech purely-style quarrels, other countries are catching up and overtaking it.

Japan is nearly destorying US car companies with their hybrid techs. Korea's Samsung destroyed dozens of high-tech US chip companies which were busy doing cut-throat competion with each other.

And US? We are still trying to find the next wheel to reinvent, at least in the software industry.

As long as Google and Microsoft play their hate games, US software dominance days are numbered. Tech companies are supposed to innovate, not play politics. Sigh.

Meet Chrome - Google's Windows Killer

US companies were the source of innovcations in tech industry. Now with Google and Microsoft war, it seems obvious that they are trying to reinvent the wheels made by the other.

Is this the sign of time that there are not much left for true innovation in software? or those companies like Google and Microsoft are just evil companies like GM and Ford which wasted their engineers' minds over styles for years while Toyota and others were pickinig up their engineers' minds for innovation?

Either way, the end is near for software industry dominance for the US.

Meet Chrome - Google's Windows Killer

"if you think that Vista and IE are good products."

Lisa, I have never used Vista, so I don't have any comment on it. I have no need to upgrade from my XP.

OS technology had reached a good-enough level with MIcrosoft XP years ago, and with somewhere between IE 6 and 7, browser technology also has reached a level where there are no real complaints from customers. OS and browser technologies are now kind of commodity technologies.

I hope that US tech companies spend time on innovation than killing their brain cells over styles.

While those evil companies like Google and Microsoft waste precious resources of US engineer minds for needless corporate feud, other nations will put their brain resources in good use and will overtake the US.

It happened in a car industry, it can happen in computer industry too.

Meet Chrome - Google's Windows Killer

Microsoft/Google browser war.

Typical corporate zero-sum warfare, which only results in confusion and will put computer industry back into the dark age of multiple OS systems when chaos, incompatibility and unnecessarily long development time, higher costs were the norms.

Back in the dark ages of multiple OS, developers had to spend much more time for developing one application because they had to support multiple OS's: microsoft ms/dos, ibm ms/dos, atari, digital dos, ibm os/2, macintosh, etc.

Those days are coming back: at the worst of time ever, when the US is losing its grip on world economic dominance.

I recently travelled to South Korea, and did a bit of web surfing for their local sites there, I was surprised at how nice and fancy their websites were, seemed light years ahead of typical websites offered by American companies.

I found out that it was because their developers only program against one standard, IE, and don't spend any time for supporting other browsers, that way, they take a maximum advantage of one set of technologies and spend more time for developing contents and less time worrying about compatility issues, which US web developers can't afford.

Apple's Extraordinary Edge

I forgot to mention. The darn good reason can't be, "Oh, it's such a beautiful object!"

LOL, that only works with the silly guy who wrote this column.

Apple's Extraordinary Edge

I am an independent thinker and therfore don't use Apple.

I like Windows because of the freedom it gives me. When using Windows, you just upgrade the components whether hardware or software you want to upgrade, no corporate leader makes a decision and forces me to buy something. I can be a follower at certain situations, but never to a corporate leader.

The office application suite I am using (Office 2000), I bought it 9 years ago. Over the years, Microsoft have come up with newer and updated office suites, but I haven't spent a single penny on them since I am happy with the office app I have. I started using it with Windows NT, then with 2000. Now, I am using it with XP.

Same thing with Vista. When Microsoft came up with a newer and better OS, Vista, I yawned at it. Hey, the last time my XP crahsed after years of using it, ... Well, it has never crashed. Sorry, Microsoft. You did a pretty darn good job with XP. When I buy a new computer, I will try Vista.

If any corporate guy wants my money, he'd better give dang good reason for it. I'm no Apple guy.

Apple's Extraordinary Edge

I am happy with my Windows XP.

Vista? I don't need it. Why upgrade when I am happy with what I've got now?

Apple? No thanks, I am an independent thinker.

Linux? Yuck.

Defending Apple's MacBook Air

"Germany, GB, And a handful of other EU countries are some of the biggest users of Apple products."

They are not as mindless as people in the US. I heard that iPod shuffle sale is signficantly down in UK because UK people buy more Creative Zen Stone's there; it's no surprise since Zen Stone is less than half the price of shuffle and has more features.

Apple invented Mouse? It's like Al Gore claiming he invented internet.

"Come on....where is all the thinking forward ideas from Mfst, Hp, Dell...etc"

Frankly, I don't care. I am a consumer. I don't like separating from my money. I demand companies to provide me products at a cheaper price with more features.

"And this is the same core OS in use today."

No. The current Windows OS has nothing to do with the DOS OS Bill Gate's Microsoft released at the time. The Windows XP and Vista originate from DEC VMS OS. The engineering team behind the venerable VMS OS moved from DEC to Microsoft and built a new Windows OS from scratch.

Defending Apple's MacBook Air

"Though I bought 3 Dell notebooks, I am not bound to Dell or even Microsoft."

I bought the 3 in the following order.

One with Pentium 2 chip in 1998
One with Pentium 3 chip in 2001
One with Pentium M chip in 2005

Sorry for the confusion.

Defending Apple's MacBook Air

Apple users should thank PC makers. In the PC industry, competition is fierce and even marker leaders such as HP and Dell are allowed only thin margins. Apple is an underdog in the computer market and they still have to play the rules set up by PC makers: lower price and more features. I bet profit margin of MacBookAir is much thinner than their IPod's. If Apple were dominating the computer market as they do in mp3 market, MacBookAir wouldn't be $1800.00, it would be $5000.00.

Defending Apple's MacBook Air

"People have this notion they can save 50 or 100 bucks by buying a Windows product and then suffer through a whole "upgrade cycle" of compromise and annoyance"

I bought my Windows notebook 3 years ago. I saved more than $1000.00 compared to a comparably equipped mac. I haven't upgraded it since and no annoyance.

Please wake up, this is a 21st century. You don't need to devote your soul to one commerical company. Though I bought 3 Dell notebooks, I am not bound to Dell or even Microsoft. If I think Sony makes a better notebook at a cheaper cost, I will switch to Sony next time. If Microsoft comes up with a newer OS that doesn't impress me, I will pass the upgrade. I make the decision.

Culturally, people in the US are moving backwards while the rest of the world is moving forward in terms of free thinking.

Defending Apple's MacBook Air

"Have they actually been benchmarked or are you just spouting nonsense? "

You don't need benchmark when things are so obvious. Compare the components used in the gizmodo site link. Apple even used 4200 rpm hard disk. These days, it's hard to find a new laptop with such a slow RPM. I bought mine 3 years ago, and it has a 7200 RPM.

"Vista is a REALLY pokey OS"
I never used Vista, so I don't know how pokey it is. I use XP which is a darn good OS. I really don't see any need to upgrade to Vista. Why upgrade when I already have an OS which I am happy with. Most XP users feel the same way, I heard. Microsoft's Vista's biggest competitor is its predecessor, XP.

"The Dell doesn't have wireless??????"
You don't have to use wireless if you don't want when using Dell. With MacBookAir, you don't have a choice. You have to take a electro-magnetic shower every time you have to access an optical drive. What people don't realize is that every time they remove a cable, they replace it with intense electromagnetic wave showers through their body.

Well, what people do for looks and style.