As was expected, Google officially declares producer’s names of PC hardware, wcich are support Chrome OS. This list appears on Google Chrome Blog and now we could say that to this operation system there is feature a greate place in Google strategy.

It is significant that among the adherents of Chrome OS the most famous names in the world IT industry are the next: Hewlett-Packard, Acer, ASUS, Lenovo, Toshiba, Adobe, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments и Freescale. Now there is comes to light what kind of actions going to accept Google for vanquish the Windows.

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It is no secret that Hewlett-Packard, Acer, ASUS, Lenovo, Toshiba are the first-rate PC hardware producers, and all of them is a greater or lesser extent release mobile devices. As for ualcomm, Texas Instruments and Freescale this companies produce microprocessor, and the first and second are the first-rate producers of processors on ARM architecture, and all of them show a greate interest in Smartbook. As distinct from Netbook this mobile devices based on ARM processors.

It is significant that Chrome OS is an operation system with public source code, and it’s oriented at first to mobile devices, though Google said that it will be righ both for desktop and laptop. Taking into account that the first Smartbook comes soon it may be assurmed that Chrome OS becames a base for such mobile devices. But for Windows XP and Windows 7 there is nothing doing because they are working x86 processors, but we has every reasons to believe that Chrome OS has more functional ability that version of Windows.

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If there is nothing changes, in nearest time we will know who becomes the first  producer of PC, where it will be Chrome OS install. As said Caroline Hsu, the representative of Google in Asia-Pacific region, american company intended to publish the list of producers PC, which are working together in this field. In her words, custom interface of Chrome OS will be shown in the end of this year, and the main difference between Android and Chrome is in the next: the first one is oriented to mobile equipment, and Chrome will be working with more important systems, such as laptop or dekstop.

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It is generally agreed that Chrome OS makes a serious threat for Microsoft and Windows , but it is too early to say that the giant from Redmont will be fall. As said Brian Ma, the director of personal search systems in IDC Asia-Pacific, Chtome OS is based on Chrome browser, that’s why it is quite possible that this Operating System is not too quickly. Besides it, Windows has a huge quantity of users, and there is no speech about perfection of this OS, but about the habits of that people, who use it. And on the other hand, the famous name as Google could makes a greate help for Chrome OS in the struggle for place in the sun.

From one’s part, the representative of Intel in Asia-Pacific region, Nick Jacobs, said that appearance of Chrome OS shows that Netbooks produce the important category among the mobile equipments. As for big producers of PC, as Acer and Asus, they are still keep silence about it. As would be expected Microsoft refrain from comments.

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Software giant claims  that the world’s most popular web browser ia faster and safer than even before.

Microsoft will make the latest version of Internet Explorer, the world’s most popular web browser, available for download from 19 of March.

Microsoft claims that the Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is faster, more user-friendly and more secure than previous versions.

Steve Ballmer, the chief executive officer of Microsoft, said: “With Internet Explorer 8, we are delivering a browser that gets people to the information they need, fast, and provides protection that no other browser can match.”

One of the key new features of IE8 is “Accelerators”, which allow surfers to perform common tasks, such as looking up an address on a map, without navigating first to a separate website. Web users can also keep an eye on their favourite sites by using “Web Slices”, which are stored in the redesigned favourites bar and flash when a site is updated.

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Internet Explorer is currently used as a main browser on around 67 per cent of the world’s computers. This represents a decline from a peak of around 91 per cent in 2004, since which time rival browsers such as Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari and, most recently, Google’s Chrome have started to eat into IE’s market share.

Internet Explorer’s dominance has attracted criticism and controversy in equal measure, not least with the European Commission, which in January announced its intention to investigate Microsoft’s practice of bundling Internet Explorer with its Windows operating systems, stating: "Microsoft’s tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice." Microsoft has already been fined over $1 billion by the Commission for bundling Windows Media Player in with its operating system.

On the internet, IE’s dominance has also caused problems, as the browser’s ubiquity has made it a favourite target for hackers preying on its programming vulnerabilities. If Microsoft is to claw back some of its lost market share, it must convince people that the new IE is more secure. Microsoft claims that IE8 offers the best security features among leading browsers, and that Internet Explorer 8 blocks two to four times as many malicious sites as competing browsers.

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