Microsoft has a new web browser in beta called Deepfish. It's quite revolutionary in that it tries to be like Opera. So by "revolutionary" I'm using Microsoft's definition of the term.
It's a restricted beta that just opened today, and already all the download slots are full.
I have a hunch that it uses server-side processing to reformat web pages (scale images, etc). That is the only real reason I can think to limit the downloads so severely - to keep load off the intermediary "proxy" servers.
http://labs.live.com/Deepfish/
Yep, after reading the details, that's exactly what it does:
"client application that leverages a powerful server side technology" Blasted marketdroid-speak. I hate it when the term leverage is used as a verb. You'll only see that in marketing or "synergy" type scenarios.
Anyway, I don't know that I would trust MS to handle all my web traffic through their servers.
Dan East