Walter Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal, who has been testing Google's Chrome browser for a week next to the latest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, concludes "With the emergence of Chrome, consumers have a new and innovative browser choice, and with IE8, the new browser war is sure to be a worthy contest." Many cloud computing enthusiasts are overjoyed with Chrome and call it the first cloud browser or even the basis for a cloud operating system.
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Member since:2005-11-15
Cloudy thinking makes for nice fluffy little diagrams that an IT executive can understand. Sometimes things get so high level they become meaningless. Chrome is just a browser; google mail just stores my mail on some servers, there is no magic involved and drawing a cloud adds nothing useful to a conservation.
You can tell browsers are defective every day when you use them so they certainly need fixing.
Member since:2006-06-03
It's not quite that simple. Take, for example, Google Mail. Yes, the emails are stored on a google server, but with gears, a copy can also be kept on the client machine, allowing offline access, Similarly, the whole Gmail 'application' can be automatically stored locally to allow offline use. This sort of thing makes synchronisation really easy, in a manner that is transparent to the user.
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2005-07-06
I can't wait till the "cloud computing" buzzword wears off. It's finally overtaken "Web 2.0" it seems.
Why is everyone so enthralled with the concept of cloud computing, anyways? yeah, I REALLY want my crap running on some companies servers that /say/ they won't do anything evil with.