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Originally Posted by eric12341
what code did MS use that wasnt entirely theirs? i would like to have a source for that and even so its still more original than OS X,linux,android and iOS will ever be.
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I dont see what is wrong with open source..it works on the policy that multiple companies can work together to develop linux/unix and etc to make it the best it can be..
here is a list of companies that contributed to linux and how much:
Red Hat: 12.3%
IBM: 7.6%
Novell: 7.6%
Intel: 5.3%
Independent consultant: 2.5%
Oracle: 2.4%
Linux Foundation: 1.6%
SGI 1.6%
Parallels 1.3%
Renesas Technology: 1.3%
Academia: 1.2%
Fujitsu: 1.1%
MontaVista: 1.1%
MIPS Technologies: 1.1%
Analog Devices: 1.0%
HP: 1.0%
see...its a global effort to make the OS the best it can be..then its up to each retailer to customize it to their personal need...so you can't say.."its not original"..because it is original in itself...Android is a branch of this...so Android does not even belong to Google...Google is just the top developer for Android...you can yourself take Android and customize it and sell phones with it without Google's permission...you just have to give them credit for their work...(it been done if youve seen those $100 tablets appear at retail stores...Google dont support those)
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i tried the new versions of chrome and it still would lock up on my 1gb RAM box more than IE9 would and firefox locked up on me more than them both combined, IE9 is set to go final this month so we shall see where it stands then
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Well 1gb ram doesnt tell us much...anyways..when you say latest..you used the beta versions? aka Firefox 4 RC and Chrome 11? or did you compare it to the current versions that are out?
Thing is..IE9 has hardware acceleration which is introduced only in FF4 and disabled by default in Chrome 10 and below(you can enable it)..so you have to use the beta versions if you plan to be fair..FF4 is also coming out March-April..not sure about Chrome 11 but my guess is soon too..
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and i wouldnt be surpriesed if IE9M came out in the may-july timeframe, it will surely blow the default android and iOS browsers out of the water.
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I dont know about that...see one of the things that makes IE9 fast is that it optimizes on multiple cores loading the JavaScript data..at the moment thats not possible as WP7 does not have multiple cores yet until the Mango Update?
Next thing is while IE9 is a HUGE improvement over the previous browsers..currently from what Ive seen does not do well with supporting HTML5...
Desktop IE9 RC had a score of 130 + 5 for the desktop browser...when I tested Android 2.2 browser I got a score of 182 + 0...aka even if IE9M will win out in speed over the current browsers it is still behind in terms of HTML5 support...
Few mobile browsers I tested:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/1996898-post13.html
By the time IE9M is released there may be newer browser versions implemented..that said, iOS4.2 Safari already is 206 + 7 which is pretty good for a stock browser...Though the one with the best score for Stock browsers is the BB 6 ironically with score of 233 + 1...
In terms of all browsers Mobile FF4 is the winner with score of 235 + 9