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Who Will Win Control of the Web?

Posted by Soulskill on from the probably-some-fourteen-year-old dept.

Barence writes "Control of the web is up for grabs. Each of the big three computing companies – Microsoft, Apple and Google – has its own radically different vision to promote, as does the world's biggest creative software company, Adobe. And HTML itself is changing, too. This article examines the case for each of the contenders in the war of the web and, with the help of industry experts, assesses which – if any – is most likely to emerge as victor."

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  1. Power by hb79 · · Score: 2, Funny

    With great power comes great responsibility. Most of these big companies are missing at least one of those.

  2. Re:Answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unfortunately javascript, Flash, Silverlight, etc... can easily be leveraged to compromise your anonymity via Tor.

    Oh noes! Someone might find out that my real IP address is 192.168.1.100!

  3. Re:None of the above by mmcxii · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're not using your soul anyway. You'd never even miss it.

  4. Re:How do we make sure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow. You mean expressing my anger online hasn't permanently fixed the problem? This is an outrage!