"Netscape will soon reduce Windows to a poorly debugged set of device drivers"
That was the time when Java was the new thing; when the "network computer" (running a Java VM+ Netscape browser) was going to replace the Windows PC any day now. Oh well...
Google Chrome is a browser, not an operating system. Linux is the operating system. No matter how much people want to think the browser is one, it doesn't change the facts. It is as much an operating system as wifi is. The browser hosts remote apps and provides a runtime environment, which to the non computer science trained out there might appear to be an operating system, but its still not. Chrome does not, for example, implement create_process (fork). Linux does. Chrome, uses fork, its an , or maybe another way to think of the browser is as a UI VM, much like the JVM run s bytecode, the browser runs 'WebCode'.
To its credit, Google has amassed some impressive brainpower, much better than Netscape ever did in its heyday. It will be interesting to see how their OS works out.
The fact that they stumbled to the mat after being KO'd by MS does not mean they failed because of their failure to withstand the punch.
I think the blow was big enough that Netscape/Mozilla would never have been as important as their 'network pc' model ideals. They would have had to exist in a much smaller market even if they were to 'succeed'.
"Netscape will soon reduce Windows to a poorly debugged set of device drivers"
That was the time when Java was the new thing; when the "network computer" (running a Java VM+ Netscape browser) was going to replace the Windows PC any day now. Oh well...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer