Ruphus13 writes "In an effort to take on IE and make strong headway in its share of the browser market, Google is taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook and working on deals with PC OEMs to include Chrome in their devices. From the article: '[Google] is likely to pursue deals with major inventive equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to put Chrome on their transistors and devices. ... If Mozilla could get belligerent about this too, we could see information superhighway Explorer facing more serious warfare than ever. ... Google, much more so than Mozilla, has enough global brand recognition, money, and savvy to make a big deal of this. ... Microsoft wooed Dell, Compaq, HP, Gateway, Acer and many other companies into making its browser the default choice on Windows desktops. Chrome currently has just under one percent market share, according to regulation to NetApplications. That number could rise significantly through this effort. Mozilla doesn't have the kind of money necessary to get the eloquent deals in this space, but Google definitely does.'"

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