Chrome is but IE writ large.
Chrome browser for businesses
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Re: Chrome browser for businesses
#12I thought this had been around forever? (I mean some form of installer and deployment kit/admin tool) I see other pages talking about it going back to 2010/2011
This appears to go far beyond that though. The policy and maintenance pieces in IE/Edge were one of the biggest reasons for some of the larger companies I've worked with that they had for staying off of other browsers. This looks to fix that.
It'll be interesting to see if this causes some "no open source, even if a support contract can be purchased" policies to get changed.
Re: Chrome browser for businesses
#13I think most interesting part of all this is that they're offering support for this[1]. So that and it now being a part of G suite is making it an 'official' service/product. And since Chromium browser is an open source browser which receives many contributions from many developers[2], this will add Google to the list of companies which take contributions from OSS and make money off it. Please correct me if I'm wrong…
For starters, the overwhelming vast majority of chromium development is from Google.
Not to mention that the licensing explicitly allows commercial usage.
(Also I'm almost positive there is OSS code running in MANY more places at google, including their server platforms, which they use as an almost direct part of their income)
Unless I'm really misreading things, your comment makes it sound like Google is now suddenly "abusing" work from developers when that's just not the case.
Not only is there literally nothing wrong with making money of OSS projects which explicitly allow it through their license, it's significantly better than the alternative of "closed source" in that anyone can not only view the source but can contribute and can even fork the project for themselves.
Re: Chrome browser for businesses
#14I thought this had been around forever? (I mean some form of installer and deployment kit/admin tool) I see other pages talking about it going back to 2010/2011
Wow, this is news to me. If it started in 2010/2011, then why are enterprise still using IE?
Because they don't know how to manage it properly. We've been doing this for several years, alongside the "Legacy Browser Support" extension for those internal systems that are still depending on IE until we decomission them later on. Everything else uses Chrome.
Re: Chrome browser for businesses
#15This isn't a new thing at all, but more awareness to the sysadmins shouldn't hurt.
Also, let me point you to the Legacy Browser Support extension.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/legacy-browser-sup...
With proper GPOs you can force a domain/subdomain to open in IE directly from any links.
Re: Chrome browser for businesses
#16I think most interesting part of all this is that they're offering support for this[1]. So that and it now being a part of G suite is making it an 'official' service/product. And since Chromium browser is an open source browser which receives many contributions from many developers[2], this will add Google to the list of companies which take contributions from OSS and make money off it. Please correct me if I'm wrong…
What about Android?
Re: Chrome browser for businesses
#17Are the benefits of these things to enterprise customers just the protection against dumb employees?
Re: Chrome browser for businesses
#18Is this about replacing one monopoly with another?
It is slowly starting too look like in the early 00's, most developers are starting to support only chrome, with no testing in Firefox or latest IE.
On Android it is even worse, no one is testing with Firefox Mobile (Fennec) - this is WinXP-IE6 all over again.
Re: Chrome browser for businesses
#19Is this about replacing one monopoly with another? It is slowly starting too look like in the early 00's, most developers are starting to support only chrome, with no testing in Firefox or latest IE. On Android it is even worse, no one is testing with Firefox Mobile (Fennec) - this is WinXP-IE6 all over again.
Bingo. One might say the economic system in whole really pushes monopolies or oligopolies.
Re: Chrome browser for businesses
#20This isn't a new thing at all, but more awareness to the sysadmins shouldn't hurt. Also, let me point you to the Legacy Browser Support extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/legacy-browser-sup... With proper GPOs you can force a domain/subdomain to open in IE directly from any links.
I understand the utility of this, and the (unfortunate) reasons why this is needed, but good lord, it seems almost like a parody.