Thursday, January 12th, 2006, 4:23 am
Google Take Interoperability More Seriously
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Google Earth on Windows; screenshot taken
when it was first released; click to enlarge the image
FTER several months of waiting, the Windows version of Google Earth has been ported to run on Macs too.
If I recall correctly, they did the same with Google Talk recently. Will a Linux version be next? That would the real test. So far they have primarily, if not exclusively, catered for commercial, closed-source platforms. Perhaps Google Pack was a key milestone, due to which they could not afford to lose time on ports.
Rants about interoperability have been voiced before although Google’s media player was cross-platform from day one. Google’s clear intent is to remain Open; in fact, all of their Web-based tool are rarely ‘platform-discriminatory’.
