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

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