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It;s been a although because Microsoft shared publicly something new about its “Gazelle” browser research project.Last we heard,Office 2010 Professional Plus Key, Microsoft researchers were working on building a new kind of Web browser that would be more secure by isolating the browser from the operating system. I;d say the project is the closest thing Microsoft has to a direct competitor with Google;s Chrome OS — except for the fact that Microsoft isn;t trying to pretend that some kind of operating-system-like layer is no longer needed by PCs and devices in a Web-app-centric world.In checking up on Gazelle, I discovered a few interesting new tidbits. For one, Gazelle (formerly known as MashupOS) has morphed again and is now part of a research project known as ServiceOS. The focus of Gazelle was on security/protection; ServiceOS fleshout out the vision for what resource access and management would like like for Web applications.
Two of the Microsoft researchers behind the project — Helen Wang and Alex Moschuk –published late last year a white paper explaining the evolution of their new ServiceOS vision.From an introduction to that paper: “Existing browsers rely on resource access control and sharing mechanisms built into traditional OSes. Unfortunately,Office 2007 Pro Plus Key, such mechanisms are ill-suited for many complex web services, such as those embedding mashups of other web services.”Sounds like Google;s premise with Chrome OS, right? Traditional OSes are unwieldy when it comes to running Web apps/services and are no longer needed?Well, not exactly.The ServiceOS platform “tightly integrates a multi-principal browsing architecture with the underlying OS,” the authors explain. That means resource-access control and the sharing of system resources is built into the platform. The platform also includes “new abstractions that allow a web service to explicitly allocate and manage resources for any helper services they embed,” they add.The researchers have built a ServiceOS prototype that manages “a wide range of resources,Office 2007 Key, including CPU, memory,Cheap Office 2007, network bandwidth, and devices like cameras microphones,Office 2010 License, or GPS.” (It doesn;t seem like the prototype is publicly available at this point.)As always, it;s worth noting that Microsoft Research projects may take years to become commercialized products and/or components of commercialized products (if they ever do). So it;s not a good assumption to think ServiceOS will be part of IE 9 or Windows 8. But it is interesting that Microsoft is continuing to forge ahead with this concept….