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I believe the browser will become the new operating system. I know, I know. That’s a horrible generalization. It sounds dangerously similar to Sun‘s oh-so-successful slogan “The network is the ...

Back in the days when people used to install software by inserting floppy disks into the slots on desktop computers, a few visionaries dreamt of being able to run software directly on the Internet and ...

Nobody who really knows is talking about what RockMelt’s browser will actually do, but I have an idea: It will be an applications platform more than merely a way to surf the web. And it may even ...

Collectively, five browsers dominate the web, accounting for 98 percent of all traffic as measured by the latest U.S. Government Digital Analytics Program. (For a discussion of where that data comes ...

Now, the operating systems we will look at are far older than Windows 11/10, which is why we can run them in modern web browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, etc. If you are running a Mac, then ...

I'll be honest — when I first heard about an operating system that runs entirely on a browser, I didn't take it seriously. It sounded like a fun little experiment, not something you could actually use ...