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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on February 22, 2009, 03:19:15 pm

Title: Gazelle Web Browser
Post by: Nemesis on February 22, 2009, 03:19:15 pm
Link to full article (http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79655)

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Our prototype implementation and evaluation experience indicates that it is realistic to turn an existing browser into a multi-principal OS that yields significantly stronger security and robustness with acceptable performance and backward compatibility.


I wonder if any of the other browsers will take this as a challenge?  Of course long ago Netscape did claim that the browser could be the OS. 

It might make a good "fast boot" when you don't need a general purpose OS.