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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. Firefox actually seems to be better known by deft · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think more people know what firefox is, as the "browser that works better and has less viruses" to the general public.

      Mozilla is relatively unknown to people outside of our little slashosphere.

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  2. Re:Microsoft will play hardball by Provocateur · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Hey! There can only be one monopoly, and that is us! Your Honor? Hello?"

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  3. Re:Will it really matter ? by hclewk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Chrome isn't ready for prime time

    Agreed. It's quite interesting that it is still loads better than IE, though.

  4. Re:Will it really matter ? by ciaohound · · Score: 4, Funny

    But will they still call it beta?

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  5. Re:Will it really matter ? by cp.tar · · Score: 4, Funny

    But will they still call it beta?

    Uncertain. I don't know how Google's "permanent beta" policy would fly with Windows' "our beta is alpha, our RC is beta, and our SP1 is what we should have released".

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  6. Re:Will it really matter ? by Skreems · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your browser crashes? What is this, 1994?

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  7. Googleology by Serious+Callers+Only · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Safari's defence, I'm sure half those million+ results are in regards to land rovers hitting elephants and other African fauna.

    863,000 +safari +crashes
    728,000 +safari +crashes -elephant
    697,000 +safari +crashes -elephant -lions
    655,000 +safari +crashes -elephant -lions -banana

    Apparently, there are many crashes involving elephants and lions which have been mistakenly added to these results. Also, it appears at least 40,000 crashes involved bananas - this warrants further investigation.

  8. Re:Will it really matter ? by CarpetShark · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's quite interesting that it is still loads better than IE, though.

    You've got IE to LOAD?

  9. Re:Will it really matter ? by tobiasly · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bet it will be by the time any deal get's done and there ready to start putting it in there (sic) process.

    Y'know, when a post contains at least three spelling/grammatical errors, and you decide to call attention to only one of them, it makes you look just as uninformed as the OP.