On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > > I have to say the timing is good, as FF3 is pretty dismal. I want to > switch back to FF2, but don't know of any easy way. > Chrome is an important technology because it will facilitate web based > competitors to things like Office. If you've ever used GWT, its really > quite easy to develop rich applications. Pretty soon, it won't make a lick > of difference if you are running windows or linux... but fear not the end of > days are not upon us, this means that instead the battleground will shift to > the browser and related technologies. You will see 'webbooks' and similar > appliances become dirt cheap as google drives the development of web-based > productivity apps. MSFT is currently losing on all fronts (maybe they > should try free food). So much for all the dependable people who claimed > 'MSFT is too big to fail' as little as 2 years ago. I'm quite sure Yahoo > will factor into this in interesting ways, their efforts have been somewhat > interesting lately. > > btw- your observations on the office logo, very interesting! -jmz > oh and BTW- the name of the browser is delightfully Microsoft-esque as well, for those who have never dealt in Mozilla arcana, 'Chrome' is a term for locally running XUL applications. I doubt that this confusion is unintentional, this is something MSFT does quite regularly (ie. .NET ). Now when I type in 'Chrome' into the search engine, what is the chance I will find something related to Mozilla? -jmz > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Ben Francom wrote: > >> >> Today Google released a new browser called Chrome ( >> www.google.com/chrome). >> >> It is apparently open source or at least has open source components >> such as >> >> web kit and some Firefox things. Unfortunately it is windows only, but >> they >> >> are going to release it on Mac and Linux soon, they just want as many >> people >> >> to try it out. I am using it right now and it seems pretty good. >> >> I'm also trying it out...So far, so good. I keep reading about how >> this browser is a shot at MS/Office: >> >> http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hHvkt5UkooUX1otx8ROBM0k-5VcQD92UHSHO0 >> >> http://blogs.computerworld.com/chrome_takes_dead_aim_at_windows_7_and_microsoft_office >> >> Coincidentally, today is the first day I noticed Google's logo colors >> and MS Windows logo colors are the same. >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War > IV will be fought with sticks and stones." --Albert Einstein > > - http://www.joshuazeidner.com/ > -- "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." --Albert Einstein - http://www.joshuazeidner.com/