Google Pulls a Microsoft

      by Wyatt Walter

Several PC vendors have come forth and stated to Google that they want Google’s Chrome to ship pre-insatlled on their PCs. Dell, HP, Acer, and Toshiba have all said they would rather be shipping PCs with Chrome as the default browser rather than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. IE has become the most-used browser on the web consuming about 70% of all users on the web after Microsoft started shipping it with Windows in the mid 90’s as the default browser. Microsoft has been at odds with OEMs over the last couple of years blaming them for the failures of Vista. As Mac sales surge, OEMs have to be looking in other directions for some help in losing the public perception that PCs are less secure and less reliable. The argument really lies in OS X vs. Windows, but both companies have gone by the terms “Mac vs. PCs”. Chrome is expected to be out of beta early next year and Google plans on pushing their product to try to take over IE as the dominant browser. Microsoft has been setting their sites on Google to take down their dominance as in the search market and it seems Google is trying to turn things around on Microsoft. Consumers tend to use the default browser with default settings that ship with the computer. Given that Chrome will come with Google as the default search provider, it will continue to dominate the market as well as hopefully gain a stronghold in the browser market as well.

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