Gazelle : Microsoft’s Multi-Processing Web Browser [OS?]
After Google announced about Chrome OS, there have been a lot of speculation about the Microsoft Gazelle. So, what exactly is Gazelle?
First and foremost it IS NOT an OS (mind my words I said ‘IS NOT’ and not ‘WILL NOT BE’). Gazelle is a multi processing browser something similar to Chrome (more info). Gazelle is coded in C# having a user interface that is built with .NET’s WinForms framework. Unlike the old paradigm were there was only a single process running for a web page, multi processing splits different functionality (iframe) of a web page into different processes. For example, for this page there will be a separate process running for the twitter updates on the right hand side. This approach splits the web page into multiple process hence making it more stable, secure and efficient + bringing it closer to an operating system.
Now, what can we expect from Gazelle? It was initially intended to be a more efficient web browser that will run on Windows but Chrome OS might just motivate Gazelle to follow its footsteps.
Follow-Up
Ars Technica : Inside Gazelle, Microsoft Research’s “browser OS” by Ryan Paul
Fatal Exception : Gazelle: The browser that thinks like an OS by Neil McAllister
Microsoft Research : The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser
(Twitter: @ ksantani )
says:
Microsoft is also moving towards the web OS like chrome..!! There is talk of Gazelle from last six months.. I dont know when they are going to launch it…!!!
Gazelle is a “browser in a VM appliance” … not a “new OS”
check out rPATH’s Firefox in a VM
or
HP’s Firefox in a VM
it is designed to insulate Windows from the browser in a “VM sandbox”, that way, you can “roll back” any VM changes (virus install) with no change to the host OS.
@Brent
If you read the post one more time you will observe that gazelle might get motivated from chrome OS…. its not written like its an OS.
(Twitter: @ mayank25may )
says:
@Baren : That is right… It is not an OS. that is what is written in the post “First and foremost it IS NOT an OS.”