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D' Technology Weblog: Microsoft Research: When Is a Browser Not a Browser?
All about Microsoft: Microsoft's Gazelle browser: A layperson's explanation
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis: Gazelle is Microsoft’s research project that shares some similarities with Palm’s webOS
Microsoft Research: When Is a Browser Not a Browser?
D' Technology Weblog —
... an operating system that supports an increasingly sophisticated Web environment. In August 2009, the Systems and Networking group will be presenting a paper on this topic during the Usenix Security Symposium, the premier academic conference on system security. The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser describes the design and construction of a browser that is actually a multi-principal operating system.
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Microsoft's Gazelle browser: A layperson's explanation
All about Microsoft —
... Microsoft Research has published a new article that explains in more layperson-like terms exactly what its “Gazelle” Web browser is and why the company’s researchers believe it’s needed . Microsoft is slated to ...
Gazelle is Microsoft’s research project that shares some similarities with Palm’s webOS
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... standards, so why would they want to mature this into shipping software? Still, cynicism aside, this only confirms Google’s best on the internet as the platform for the future, Palm’s webOS as the ideal way to build an OS, and the growing importance that software that connects over the internet will be to our daily lives. Expect to see browsers on mobile phones only become more powerful and have access to more of the local data that sits on your device.
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Microsoft Research’s Gazelle Browser OS
D' Technology Weblog —
... Microsoft Research has published a new article that explains in more layperson-like terms exactly what its “Gazelle” Web browser is and why the company’s researchers believe it’s needed. Microsoft is slated to present a paper on Gazelle at the ...
For Microsoft and Google, Battleground Shifts to Web-Based Operating Systems
Xconomy —
... Make no mistake about it, Microsoft is ready for this. Last week, the company posted some detailed thoughts about its own browser-based operating system project, called Gazelle. OK, maybe it’s too soon to call Gazelle an operating system—it’s more like a browser that behaves a little like an operating system, ...
Five Reasons Why Microsoft Does Not Need To Worry About Google Chrome OS
paidContent —
... ), Microsoft understands that more people are running applications from within the browser—and is moving quickly to adapt its products to that reality. The company’s research arm, Microsoft Research, is developing a new browser called Gazelle, which it describes as a “browser-based OS” optimized to run web apps. Just last week, the company put out a summary of the principles behind the project. ...
Microsoft's Gazelle Project Tackles Browser Security
TechWeb —
... content from all over the Web. Although they're widely used for online banking, shopping, and other activities that can expose personal and financial data to thieves, they don't offer the same protections to users as desktop applications. "Everyone accepts that applications need to run on operating systems. Yet browsers have never been constructed to be operating systems ," Microsoft Research senior researcher Helen J. Wang said on the Microsoft Research Web site. Instead, browsers allow code and content from different places to co-exist, so that an ad, for example, could ...
