Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’

The world gets wise to Internet Explorer

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

So, as you may or may not have heard, Google’s fallen out with China: more specifically the Chinese government, which may or may not (strangely both sides disagree on this one) have been hacking into Google Mail/GMail accounts of Chinese dissidents.

Well, apparently, the hacking was made possible because of a problem with Internet Explorer.
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Google reveals Chrome OS

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

So, last week Google previewed it’s upcoming operating system: Chrome OS.

For the non-geeky: operating systems – such as Windows, Mac OS X and Linux – are the bits that sit between you (the user) and the computer hardware (hard drive, graphics card etc).

Why does the world need another operating system you may wonder? Well, you’re not alone.

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