In the Internet age, is browser an operating system?

Seventeen years ago, Bill Gates was keenly aware of how important browser is. Looking at Netscape's browser that occupied 90% of users' desktops, Gates sent an email to employees on the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, saying, "We are like the US fleet defeated by Japan. Immediately stop all the work at hand and devote all efforts to IE browser development ."

In fact, the first cry of Microsoft IE is not loud. IE 1.0 is regarded as a student-like work, and the market is gloomy. It wasn't until two years that Microsoft IE's market share of 4.0 browsers reached 18%, While Netscape's market share was 72% at that time.

Related topic recommendations: IE Firefox reinstalls and looks at the latest browser battle report

Microsoft has done its best to overturn the online scenes that have soared several times at that time, and even spared no effort to kill the prestigious online scenes by bundling Numerous troubles in the future. Despite the mean means, however, from the results, if Microsoft did not decisively reverse the situation and killed Netscape before the internet wave swept across the world, Microsoft, which is always on PC, may be farther away from the Internet.

From this perspective, IE may be Microsoft's most strategic product. It is with IE that Microsoft will not suffocate in the Internet era due to slow response. It earned huge space and time for Microsoft's giant on the information highway.

Today, browsers are no longer just Internet portals and tools. Browsers already have most of the properties of the operating system. In other words, browsers can do what the operating system can do, the browser already has the "independent" capital from the operating system. As a matter of fact, with the opening of "cloud computing", the concept of browser-the operating system has become popular in the industry and has been put into practice. The operating system developed by Google based on Chrome browser is exactly this product. In this regard, Li Kaifu even believes that "in the future, the most important thing on PC is not the operating system but the browser ".

Internet commentator Hong Bo once told the media that "Windows will become increasingly unimportant in the Internet era. Google Chrome's philosophy represents the future, while Microsoft Windows represents history ."

Google's vice president Vic gangduo once bluntly said: "The operating system is losing its luster. The operating system will become an application, which is exactly the first application to be started ."

The browser is the operating system. However, compared with the monopoly of operating system windows, the competition in the browser market is the true competition. Although Internet Explorer currently has a high market share, Microsoft must be more cautious about the technological advances and ever-expanding market share of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and other browsers.

In non-ie browsers powered by Google, the open next-generation Hypertext-based HTML5 standard has become the most powerful weapon. The browser game rules developed by Microsoft have been broken, so that Microsoft, which once shelved the HTML series standards, was forced to claim support for HTML5.

According to the current situation, Microsoft's stick to the standard is being eroded by the Open Standard of 1.1 points, and the support rate of IE 9.0 for HTML5 is indeed far behind browsers such as Firefox. Gates has retired, and there will be no more such a helmsman standing on the tall watchlist and shouting, "we are like the US fleet defeated by Japan ."

Of course, Microsoft should not be disappointed. It is not a bad thing that such a visionary boss retires. Gates also said this when IE 6.0 was widely used. "I don't think IE needs to be developed any more. 6.0 is enough to cope with everything ."

Yes, the operating system is the root of Microsoft. It is never good news that the browser is too powerful.

Connection: http://news.mydrivers.com/1/189/189858.htm