The Link Between Browser Share, Cloud Computing, and Security

Posted by Dave Asprey in Ambient Cloud, Cloud Jan 4th, 2012 | No Comments Some interesting ambient cloud news came out on January 1. Internet Explorer is continuing its decline and Google Chrome is benefiting. (And my old, formerly trusted Firefox is declining too – maybe I’ll switch back if they ever fix that memory fragmentation problem…) At 1st blush, it’s hard to see how this has much to do with cloud computing except for the fact that browsers are used to access SaaS applications. But when you look at it from the perspective of the ambient cloud, browsers are themselves a cloud. Think about it: what if you had an application running on tens...