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Sony VAIO Polishes Google Chrome

Here's a new front in the browser wars. If Microsoft is going to embed IE into Windows, then Google will go after OEMs -- in this case, Sony, which will offer Chrome as its default browser on VAIO PCs. Scott Baio, whose name sort of looks like VAIO when it's spelled out, has not officially commented so far. As far as we know, anyway.

Posted by Lee Pender on September 03, 2009


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