Sony *hearts* Google: All Sony Vaios to come with Chrome Browser pre-installed…IE gets the shaft.
While Microsoft’s dominant position on the browser market has been the un-toppable empire, the age of IE is finally (and thankfully) starting to come to an end. Over across the pond in Europe, Microsoft now has to include other options in Windows installs for browser downloads. However, stateside here we’re taking a slightly different approach. Since there aren’t any legal boundaries here, manufacturers are taking a different approach. Sony announced today plans to include Google’s Chrome browser on all Viao computers. However, it’s worth noting that IE will still be included.
While it may not seem like a big deal, having Google Chrome as an aditional browsing option is huge. A good deal of the market who buy computers don’t do anything to customize their environments or download 3rd party applications such as other browsers. They use what is provided to them — the same tactic that more or less gave Microsoft and IE the dominating market share for so many years. Now that Google has a leg up with Sony, are we going to see more deals follow along these lines? Could we even see IE sink further into irrelevance? God…I sure hope so…
Source: Alley Insider
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