{"id":45636,"date":"2009-11-20T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/mobilecontenttoday\/mobile\/google_chrome_os_2009_msn_companion_1999_143778.asp?c=rss"},"modified":"2009-11-20T01:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T06:40:00","slug":"google-chrome-os-2009-msn-companion-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/45636","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome OS 2009 = MSN Companion 1999?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0QRO3gKj3qw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0QRO3gKj3qw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<em>YouTube video courtesy of googlechrome<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Google announced their Chrome OS yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/mobilecontenttoday\/mobile\/Releasing%20the%20Chromium%20OS%20open%20source%20project\">Releasing the Chromium OS open source project<\/A><\/p>\n<p>And, like a lot of people I watched the live stream on a web page built using Cold Fusion (how retro!) and requring either Real or Windows Media to watch (what happened to YouTube?). I thought Chrome OS was going to be a superset of Android and was very excited about the prospect of this super-Android on tablet computers. Instead, I became less and less excited by Chrome OS as the presentation unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>After the announcement&#8217;s conclusion, I tried to figure out why this all seemed so familar. Then, I remember a product I really liked that failed about a decade ago: Microsoft&#8217;s MSN Companion. The MSN Companion was based on Windows CE (like today&#8217;s Windows Phones) and essentially hosted Internet Explorer 4 in its firmware. The MSN Companion was a desktop dedicated web browser. Although it was not a mobile device, it was essentially 10 years ahead of Google&#8217;s Chrome OS.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"msncompanionanddash.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/mobilecontenttoday\/original\/msncompanionanddash.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"379\" \/><br \/>\n<em>MSN Companion with a T-Mobile Dash on top of it to provide relative size information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I thought the MSN Companion was a great idea a decade ago. However, I&#8217;m not sure what is essentially a dedicated browser opearting system is what we need or want today.<\/p>\n<p>New Career Opportunities Daily: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/joblistings\/?c=rss\">best jobs in media<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube video courtesy of googlechrome Google announced their Chrome OS yesterday&#8230; Releasing the Chromium OS open source project And, like a lot of people I watched the live stream on a web page built using Cold Fusion (how retro!) and requring either Real or Windows Media to watch (what happened to YouTube?). I thought Chrome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}