The more intimately you know your preferred web browser, the better you can gauge its interaction with your mainframe once it is ported to an accessible mobile platform through a browser based terminal emulator.
In a recent announcement from Google on its Project Chromium page, the company unveiled the 64-bit version of Chrome that will now be available for users of still-supported versions of Windows. Among the advantages being touted by Google are the speed and security that it will bring to users, as well as a lower rate of crashes.
What's interesting is that, by remaining available to both Windows 7 and 8 users, the company seems to be widening its scope more than it would if it was just devoting its attention to the latter.
"The majority of our users on Windows 7 or higher now have systems capable of running 64-bit applications, and this version of Chrome can take full advantage of these newer capabilities," the page reads.
It's only one innovation being applied to Google's star browser, although it may be more popular than the "Origin Chip" discussed in a recent article for PC World. The feature that reduces the full html string to just a condensed address in the URL field of the browser is "backburned" at the moment, according to one worker from the Chrome team.
When your business decides to get serious about the use of a mainframe terminal emulator, it needs to think about the software options that may be used by your employees to access your system. In the same way that Chrome is keeping current with Windows 7 and 8, you can look for a screen sharing tool that is relevant and flexible.