Web browser application that is issued by Microsoft, Internet Explorer, likely will face new challenges to the dominance of the browser default, the de facto, at the company level. Competitors Microsoft, Mozilla and Google in particular, in the near future will be launching several new features in the browser product that will help their application in a computer network company.
The emergence of the debate about antimonopoli in Europe has forced Microsoft to release their latest operating system, Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 without ter-install automatically.
“This opens opportunities for other browsers to enter the market the company,” said Sheri McLeish, an analyst from Forrester.
“But still features the enterprise-friendly, such as installation and setting policies that will be the access determines the browser will be used by a company,” he added.
During this time, Microsoft offers a variety of tools that facilitate information and technology division of a company to install and access the settings on the browser computer connected to the corporate network. This also encouraged the fact that Internet Explorer is included in the installation of the Windows operating system are otomatisDi in the Windows operating system also has included the setting of the IE browser on the computer-computer network that can be accessed easily and uniformly. As a result, for many years recognize the IE browser as standard, although the implementation of the web industry in fact up to IE 7 and IE 8 are not in accordance with the standards.
“Mozilla is a company that offers an alternative to aggressive companies that still use IE,” added McLeish.
Mike Beltzner, the Director of Firefox, browsers are Mozilla products, said that the release Firefox 3.5, which is planned to be conducted end of this month, offers a variety of tools to web application developers to develop applications that comply with company standards.
“Mozilla also offers a customization program which includes the installation of one of the browser Firefox simultaneously,” said Beltzner.
The program is named ‘Build Your Own Browser’, a company can use the web application provided by Mozilla to set customization using a browser that is installed on the corporate network, such as bookmarks and the application of the skin that can be tailored to the theme of the company.
Firefox is also widely used by companies that use Apple computers, because it is a cross-platform and display the web page is almost exactly the same irrespective of the use of a PC or Mac.
One of the other browser applications that are considered potentially harmful popularity is Google Chrome. Support to make the name of Google’s browser is quite popular in the public eye, although the first new version released last year.
Google also added a group policy setting on the technology Google Update, which is used to update the applications made in Google is one installed on a computer, including Chrome. This feature allows settings specific to the Google Chrome installed in computers on a network the same.
Matt Rosoff, an analyst from Directions of Microsoft, said, “The position of Google, the market share is bigger than Europe the United States, can help them make the cooperation with the computer vendor in Europe to distribute Chrome along with Windows 7, as IE 8″.
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July 28th, 2009
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