There was an outage at London stock Exchange that went for more than 7 Hrs. And believe me that’s serious because it’s a STOCK EXCHANGE. Couple of months ago you would have noticed the Microsoft “Get the facts” campaign. There, in one of those they claimed “London Stock Exchange chooses windows over Linux for reliability”.
I don’t claim Linux is superb for reliability, but it lets it’s server do the talking rather than it’s marketing.
Windows is “Lipstick on the PIG”.
I heard a weird form of punishment. It’s that if you don’t meet your targets, you get Microsoft Windows Vista as punishment. I haven’t worked on Vista, but I’ve heard how it crashes and people loose their work and their patience and their mind. In my office people are desperate to downgrade their shiny new vista with XP. I think in the end windows was always “Lipstick on a pig”, but after all windows was always a pig.
Today morning i read an incredible news … News about Google Chrome – an open source browser based on Mozilla Firefox and WebKit. It’s got tonnes of improvements specially in the areas of speed, security and memory. It’s got a virtual machine V8. I haven’t tried it out yet ( can’t wait though ), I just read their comic strip on their official blog, but for me the thought looming on my head are the implications of this. Microsoft unfortunately couldn’t take much advantage of it’s IE browser, now it seems to loose out completely in browser war. Here is what i think are the implications of this new browser.
1> Microsoft finally admits that it’s a looser. It just can win the web/browser war anymore and slowly the market share of IE drop from 70-75% t0 30-35%.
2> As the major browser are the open source, standard based browser, there is an explosion of functionality and capability long promised, but held back in these browsers primarily due to IE dominance. The browser becomes the “application’s platform” rather than just document( Web 2.0 ).
3> I see Opera joining Firefox, and working on firefox base and putting the good stuff of opera in firefox.
4> I see Apple leading WebKit in a different direction.
5> With Google Gears, the browser starts becoming peer to peer or decentralized pockets of computing.
Imagine small parts of application server spread out into the browser of it’s users.
5> I see browser war emerging again from it’s ashes. Microsoft – Mozilla – Opera – Apple – Google – Yahoo all fight to control the browser space, though everybody working on the common goal of standardizing the web ( except you know who ).
6> I see Web Application Science as a major in Universities and colleges.
7> I see semantic web.
What do you see ?
