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Google vs. Microsoft On the Desktop

Posted by timothy on from the rules-of-engagement dept.

Michael_Curator writes "Gary Edwards, president of the now-defunct Open Document Foundation, helps sort out the challenges Google faces displacing Microsoft on the desktop, pitting the strengths of Microsoft's proprietary stack against the developer candy that HTML 5 represents."

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  1. Re:Hate to be a spoilsport but by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft actually contributed lots to HTML 5, at least according to Chris Wilson (Software Architect for IE)

    Someone had to introduce problems, incompatibilities, and inconsistency or it wouldn't be a proper standard.

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