The good news is that web developers should find inceasing and interesting work in the future with mobile phone/device integration. The most significant innovations in Chrome and IE8 are about convergence of the Mobile phone and the Browser. Microsoft is conditioning users to think in terms of "web Slices" which is a fragmentation of a web page into services, which is consistent with their plans for the mobile market. They have a vision of the "Sky Market" with syndicated and brokered content, once you have a sizable base of mobiles you are in a strong position to licence service providers, but you still have to be integrated with the web browser and your office apps. Google's strategy is currently toward "service provider" than "service broker" or service syndication strategy at present, but who is to say that this cannot change. Anyway, Google's Android/Chrome offering is an attack on Microsoft's ambitions for the mobile phone, by putting weight behind the open mobile concept. With Chrome they have simply tidied up the technology implementation, but more significantly they have given their attack an technical edge, by innovating a local database store which allows the browser/phone/PDA to have offline behaviours. The paradigm shift to local data stores is going to be Microsoft's biggest thorn. But no, Microsoft will not go open source, and it will not radically change its approach. It may tidy up its own browser internals (long overdue). But as far as the death knell of IE, maybe not. The simple reality is that Microsoft profits are strong, and the majority (most corporates are late adopters) will welcome IE8 and use it.
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