On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner@gmail.com> 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 <bfrancom@gmail.com> 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.
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