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I'm sure I am not the only one, seems a relative obvious next step, but Google Chrome was my idea like 8 years ago when I really started to shift from desktop development to web application development, I seen this happening.
I came across that just a few weeks ago, and it was a "dead" research project. It had been updated a few years ago, and was marked as being a complete report, or something like that.
Microsoft needs to make a massive effort in to making IE not suck as well as getting IT departments to upgrade from IE6 to IE8. I also think they should drop IE6 support earlier then planned because it's just a massive suck on the entire industry. Even IE7 is a horrible browser and IE8 barely gets by. IE9 better kick some serious ass.
I'm anxious to see chrome...although it osunds like just a cut down version of Linux with Chrome as the browser/desktop. Whereas Gazelle sounds like OS is the browser, so requests go through the kernel as opposed to just an application.
I suspect you can see some of the ideas of Gazelle in Neptune. Windows Neptune actually had a developed active desktop, and used a specialized addition to HTML allowing you to basically take explorer and write your own shell in HTML and CSS... or at least, that's where it was going. They had it working in Explorer, though, you could essentially use your desktop and file manager in lots of interesting ways by using HTML and live content from the web. Oddly, Neptune was also incredibly fast. I mean, it was FAST.
What happened, Microsoft? If you want Gazelle to get moving, go find your old Neptune developers, and crawl on your knees and beg them to come back.