Google sees new browser as defensive move

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Christia Freeland and Richard Waters cite Eric Schmidt:“The thing that changed in the past couple of years . . . is that people started building powerful applications on top of browsers and the browsers that were out there, in particular in Explorer, were not up to the task(...)”