We all know Google team is working on its new OS "Google Chrome OS" which will be open source and targeted at Netbooks. It would be available in second half of 2010.
Now it seems Microsoft is coming with a similar thing which is called "Gazelle" currently. "Janie Chang" at Microsoft Research website posted detailed information about Gazelle web browser:
Helen J. Wang, senior researcher in the Systems and Networking group at Microsoft Research Redmond, is working on ways to evolve the browser into an operating system that supports an increasingly sophisticated Web environment.
The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser describes the design and construction of a browser that is actually a multi-principal operating system.
In the Gazelle model, the browser-based OS, typically called the browser kernel, protects principals from one another and from the host machine by exclusively managing access to computer resources, enforcing policies, handling interprincipal communications, and providing consistent, systematic access to computing devices.
Gazelle essentially leverages the existing mechanisms of operating systems and tailors them to the needs of Web applications. In Gazelle’s architecture, the browser kernel is a layer that sits between the underlying operating system and the principals, exclusively responsible for managing principals and system resources.
Gazelle represents the first time that a browser has been implemented as a multi-principal operating system.
This article was posted in Browsers.
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Kwesi C.
Opera 10 beta 2 just came out. It's amazing. Article on that
But to answer that article, what a way to get competition already. I hope that that browser/OS is better than IE.
Sami
I still have my own theory on where browser idea should evolve - lucky Nimi next project inline to be released happens to be "browser".
vasudev
Vishal, its the other way round. Gazelle was announced much earlier to Google OS. Work on Gazelle started much earlier.
Tangmeister
So no more IE? No IE9? Yes!
Kwesi C
@Tangmeister
I second that! IE needs to quit. It is obvious that more people use other browsers other than IE. They just need to stop production.
NightmarE D
@vasudev
Where did Vishal say anything about Gazelle not being around before ChromeOS was announced? Anyone who visits Microsoft Research would have known about Gazelle for a while now.
Xonrick
I dont think microsoft can beat google in this....they only get the market share in internet explorer because they ship it natively with windows..and that will also change with windows 7.....
vasudev
@NightmarE D: I thought the title suggested it. And if u read the first few lines of article, it seems to suggest that, after Chrome OS, Microsoft is coming with a similar thing......