Submitted by “Microsoft Research was in the news not too long ago regarding the innovative, outside-the-box research being done by MSR scientists on display at the annual MSR TechFest event. One of the stars of the show was a new web browser project named Gazelle. This is a great conversation with Gazelle project lead Helen Wang and Alex Moshchuk, a PhD student intern developer working on the Gazelle project. We cover a lot of ground and Erik and I are unusually curious given the fascinating model Gazelle represents for a truly secure web browser.”
but I get the feeling they are a ways off from code
they can show. I am pleased to see that innovation and
development in the browser market is alive and kicking.
They’ve built a prototype using the IE7 Trident engine but I’m positive that won’t fly as even an alpha release
“This construction exposes intricate design issues that no previous work has identified, such as legacy protection of cross-origin script source, and cross-principal, cross-process display and events protection.”
That sounds like lawyer talk and they have filed 200 patents on this work.
I hate landmine patents on things that most programmers would come up with but we just haven’t reach the point of needing them yet. The software industry is too young for patents, it is way too easy for independent invention to occur.