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Google Chrome and the New Web Browser War
Tuesday September 2, 2008
The idea of a web browser being the operating system of the future is nothing new for Microsoft. They realized the vast potential of the Internet long before we had such catch phrases as "Web 2.0", "Office 2.0" or "Enterprise 2.0". That is why Microsoft took aim at web browser rival Netscape and blew it out of the water in the first web browser war by packaging Internet Explorer with its popular Windows operating system.

But Microsoft's dominance in the browser market has been slipping over the past few years. With Mozilla's Firefox making a big push, and niche browsers like Flock attracting some users, Internet Explorer has seen its market share slowly slide as more and more users become aware that there is an alternative.

Google's announcement that they are getting involved in the web browser war isn't really a surprise. Google Chrome is just the next logical step for the company that dominates the web in much the same way that Microsoft dominates the personal computer.


But Microsoft's battle for future dominance goes way beyond Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. The chief rival in the new web browser wars isn't an individual browser so much as it is the emerging trends of Office 2.0 and Mobile 2.0.

Let's start with Mobile 2.0. In just a few short years, cell phones went from a company-issued device to something everyone was carrying around in their pocket. This is the same trend happening with smartphones. In a few years, the vast majority of people will be walking around with Internet-capable miniature computers in their pockets. You'll be able to talk, text, email, web browse, social network, blog, watch video and do pretty much anything else you could do at your home computer -- perhaps even play World of Warcraft on your smartphone.

And with an estimated 1.7 billion users accessing the web by 2013, this makes smartphones the new frontier. And it is a frontier that is not owned by Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft's mobile version of Internet Explorer trails way behind the iPhone's Safari, Opera's mini and mobile browsers and the soon-to-be-released Skyfire browser, which may have them all beat in terms of reproducing the 'real' web on your phone.

Next up: Office 2.0. While the initiative to bring sophisticated applications to the web might not sound like a threat to the world's most popular browser, it is perhaps the biggest threat of all. Sophisticated web applications will make the choice of operating system less relevant.

If the trend of the web-browser-as-operating-system continues, fewer and fewer people will need expensive, powerful personal computers or laptops. Instead, these devices will be replaced by smartphones and web-capable thin clients. Those are markets not dominated by Microsoft operating systems, and are thus not dominated by Internet Explorer.

And this is where Google's Chrome browser comes into the picture. Google is promising to take web browsing to the next level by delivering an upgraded JavaScript engine capable of delivering more complex web applications than currently possible. While Chrome might still find it extremely difficult to get a foothold in a market dominated by Internet Explorer, once you marry Google Chrome to Google's Android Operating System designed for the mobile market, you have a browser capable of conquering the new frontier.




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-- Edited by Dj Omari at 02:01, 2008-09-03[spoiler]

-- Edited by Dj Omari at 02:17, 2008-09-03