No Google Voice desktop app? No worries, it'll be coming to your browser soon enough

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Over at TechCrunch, Mike Arrington is hoping Google changes its mind about releasing the Google Voice desktop app they've been dogfooding for some time. The program likely began taking shape after Google acquired VOIP software company Gizmo5 last year. Things looked even better following Google's acquisition of Global IP Solutions -- a company which specializes in media-over-IP technology.

Just when the public was starting to get excited about this amazing new desktop VOIP app, it now appears as though it may never see the light of day. As it turns out, the software likely won't ever be released to the public -- due in no small part to Google's feeling that "legacy desktop apps" have run their course and the Web is the platform of the future.

No problem! Google should be able to deliver a pretty sweet browser-based Voice app, right? Not so fast, says Arrington. According to TechCrunch sources, HTML5 isn't ready for that kind of heavy lifting. One big factor working against it is shoddy microphone support in the still-evolving spec. If you're expecting an in-browser VOIP app, you're not going to see it any time soon... Or are you?

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