Google’s Chrome browser has Vista roots
It’s emerged that Google’s Chrome browser, created using a host of open-source coding, actually includes Microsoft content. While it was used perfectly legally, Google made little mention of the Microsoft connection when launching Chrome.
It also turns out that Google may have looked through the coding behind Vista; confusingly enough the code was needed to make Chrome run safely in the service pack 2 edition of XP.
The Chrome project is run on open-source principles, meaning the entire coding behind the browser is publicly available. Scott Hanselman (pictured), a high-level programming figure at Microsoft, has dug through that code and discovered Chrome uses Microsoft’s Windows Template Library.
