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Google’s Chrome browser released by luck of the mistake when Google mentioned its details in a comic strip. That truth will be written in the anals of history when folks run down the history of Chrome years from now. It is still a very raw browser but already has the makings of something that can sink FireFox (sad as that may be to us who love this browser) and injure Internet Exlorer.
Chrome might just be the browser to topple Internet Explorer, which has held onto the majority browser seat for years purely because it is bundled with Windows in all its incarnations. If Microsoft did not have that luxury of being able to count on the dazed and continued lazy use of their browser by folks who don’t care to spend a couple of megabytes of their bandwidth on something better, IE would be nowhere at this moment. As things are they are however right at the top.
Google however has access to those hordes and even more important, they have a plan!
Google wants to replace Microsoft’s software business with web applications! You can already do many things online with Google that you used to use Microsoft software for. Chrome is the little emisary that can dent the armor of ol’ MS. FireFox will probably go down in history as the knight in shining armor that tired the old monster IE enough for the young and valiant Chrome to slay. Some folks might not see it that way. The murmuring in the IT community is already there that Google might be evil if it garners the magic staff of all dominance from Microsoft. What will happen if they take over the web with their cool and nifty software counting on harnessing us as its ad-grazing sheep?
RUN FOR THE HILLS!
Nobody really knows how it will all play out, but Chrome is definitely smarter from a user interface perspective. It is just the extra mile in pretty, but also in usefulness. It does not beat FireFox yet, but it might, very soon!
Be Google good or evil, the truth is that we are living in interesting times and I have a nagging feeling our world will change very soon, the way it did back in the mid nineties when the web exploded.
Chrome might just be the browser to topple Internet Explorer, which has held onto the majority browser seat for years purely because it is bundled with Windows in all its incarnations. If Microsoft did not have that luxury of being able to count on the dazed and continued lazy use of their browser by folks who don’t care to spend a couple of megabytes of their bandwidth on something better, IE would be nowhere at this moment. As things are they are however right at the top.
Google however has access to those hordes and even more important, they have a plan!
Google wants to replace Microsoft’s software business with web applications! You can already do many things online with Google that you used to use Microsoft software for. Chrome is the little emisary that can dent the armor of ol’ MS. FireFox will probably go down in history as the knight in shining armor that tired the old monster IE enough for the young and valiant Chrome to slay. Some folks might not see it that way. The murmuring in the IT community is already there that Google might be evil if it garners the magic staff of all dominance from Microsoft. What will happen if they take over the web with their cool and nifty software counting on harnessing us as its ad-grazing sheep?
RUN FOR THE HILLS!
Nobody really knows how it will all play out, but Chrome is definitely smarter from a user interface perspective. It is just the extra mile in pretty, but also in usefulness. It does not beat FireFox yet, but it might, very soon!
Be Google good or evil, the truth is that we are living in interesting times and I have a nagging feeling our world will change very soon, the way it did back in the mid nineties when the web exploded.