According to the WSJ, Google and Sony have reached an agreement to get Google Chrome preinstalled on Sony's Vaio computers. Awesome for Chrome, which as I described before, is just a sweet browser (minus no extensions, but that will be fixed soon I am sure). Got a long way to go though in terms of market share. According to the article
As of July, Chrome accounted for 2.6% of the global Web browser market, according to Net Applications. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer accounted for 67.7%. Since the Sony laptops will still run Microsoft’s Windows operating system, people will likely also be able to easily access Internet Explorer from the computers too. Google executives have said in the past they are looking at a range of Chrome distribution deals.
Full link here. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/08/31/googles-chrome-nabs-sony/
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