Released: September 11, 2008

Microsoft and Google rewrite their browsers

Source: Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post (Free Registration)

Your Web browser is probably the most important program on your computer, and it’s now getting the competition it deserves.

Mozilla Firefox,the most successful challenger to Microsoft’s incumbent Internet Explorer, is an outstanding piece of work and more than deserving of the raves it has won since its debut four years ago. (I made it my default browser in Windows even before its 1.0 version arrived.) But its developers don’t have a monopoly on all the bright ideas in browsing; people looking for better ways to the Web have two new options.

One comes from Microsoft, which two weeks ago shipped an impressive, but unfinished, release of IE’s next version. The other comes from Google, which last week offered a preview of its own browser. 

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