Comments on: Browser Game Changeup

By: Perhaps they need to market their browser first… :: Rock Solid

Perhaps they need to market their browser first… :: Rock Solid — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:52:38 +0000

[...] We love Chrome. It’s our default browser, and I think it makes Firefox look positively old school in comparison. If we go back in time, we can see that the Chrome percentage came from the Firefox camp, not the IE camp. But, if Google can’t get technically sophisticated, current folks to give their browser a spin then how are they going to fare trying to convince my parents that they should use an OS that can’t run Microsoft Office? [...]

By: Kendall Miller

Kendall Miller — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:21:29 +0000

True enough! I’m so used to working in megabits that even when I knew I should I didn’t convert back to megabytes. I’ll make an update in the article.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:44:27 +0000

Don’t mean to point you out, but:

“We already have the first one. It takes about 728kbps throughput – DSL speed – to move 3MB of data in 5 seconds.”

How is that possible?? 728kbps is approximately 70KB/s, 3MB would take at least 30 seconds.

By: HB

HB — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:08:07 +0000

Very interesting… I think a lot of people forget how hard it is for Microsoft to maintain the backwards compatibility that they works so hard at. It makes them forget what kind of impressive feat it is to release something like IE8.

Good article