Peaches Posted October 24, 2009 Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 Web 2.0 Summit: The Browser Is What Matters Google's Sundar Pichai provides some hints about his company's upcoming browser-based Chrome operating system. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek October 22, 2009 03:17 PM Google's Chrome Web browser is just over a year old and it already has about 30 million active users. "Chrome has been doing very well for us," said Sundar Pichai, VP of product management at Google, in a public interview with at the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday. As a point of comparison, Firefox, initially released in late 2004, has over 300 million active users. Pichai said that Google's goals for Chrome -- speed, simplicity, and security -- have resonated really well with users. He also said that Linux and Mac versions are coming soon. To the suggestion that Chrome OS -- the operating system that Google is developing around its Chrome browser -- is on a collision course with Windows, Pichai responded that the world is entering a period of tremendous innovation in personal computing. "Browsers are suddenly hot again and I think operating systems are too," he said, referring both to Chrome OS and Android, Google's operating system for mobile devices Read more at IWeek - http://www.informati...cleID=220900224 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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