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| Google Chrome OEM Strategy To Take On IE                           |
|   from the countdown-to-antitrust-suits dept.                      |
|   posted by Soulskill on Friday November 21, @19:15 (Google)       |
|   http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/21/2352217 |
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ruphus13 writes “In an effort to take on IE and make strong headway in
its share of the browser market, Google is taking a page out of
Microsoft’s playbook and [0]working on deals with PC OEMs to include
Chrome in their devices. From the article: ‘[Google] is likely to pursue
deals with major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to put Chrome on
their computers and devices. … If Mozilla could get aggressive about
this too, we could see Internet Explorer facing more serious competition
than ever. … Google, much more so than Mozilla, has enough global brand
recognition, money, and savvy to make a big deal of this. … Microsoft
wooed Dell, Compaq, HP, Gateway, Acer and many other companies into
making its browser the default choice on Windows desktops. Chrome
currently has just under one percent market share, according to
NetApplications. That number could rise significantly through this
effort. Mozilla doesn’t have the kind of money required to get the
significant deals in this space, but Google definitely does.’”

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Links:
0. http://ostatic.com/177058-blog/with-chrome-google-busts-a-move-right-out-of-microsofts-playbook