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Google Chrome OEM Strategy To Take On IE

Posted by Soulskill on from the countdown-to-antitrust-suits dept.

ruphus13 writes "In an effort to take on IE and make strong headway in its share of the browser market, Google is taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook and working on deals with PC OEMs to include Chrome in their devices. From the article: '[Google] is likely to pursue deals with major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to put Chrome on their computers and devices. ... If Mozilla could get aggressive about this too, we could see Internet Explorer facing more serious competition than ever. ... Google, much more so than Mozilla, has enough global brand recognition, money, and savvy to make a big deal of this. ... Microsoft wooed Dell, Compaq, HP, Gateway, Acer and many other companies into making its browser the default choice on Windows desktops. Chrome currently has just under one percent market share, according to NetApplications. That number could rise significantly through this effort. Mozilla doesn't have the kind of money required to get the significant deals in this space, but Google definitely does.'"

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  1. Re:One evil for another. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Doesn't Firefox's awful bar essentially the same thing? Phone's home, not user controllable or removable from the browser making it virtually malware but the fanbois will no doubt mod down when faced with the truth. $$$ over principle may well send many right back to M$ who has supposedly improved IE's security in response to Firefox etc. Chrome is not worth the download till it eliminates or at leasts options the "phone home bar" and allows ad and script blocking etc.

    Purely IMO and don't demand that anyone agree with me.

  2. Re:Will it really matter ? by mixmatch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Neither is WebKit, which Chrome uses to render pages.

  3. Re:Will it really matter ? by the_B0fh · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And if you want to continue to drive cars without brakes, I could care less. Go buy the Microsoft car all day long.

    However, if another car manufacturer comes along and sells cars without brakes, I'm going to bitch at them all day long.

    Or put it another way - there are still banks with login pages that are not behind https. SO FUCKING WHAT? SHOULD WE SAY HTTPS SHOULD BE DEPRECATED?!

    Making excuses for stupid people is what gets us into trouble. STOP DOING THAT.