when i heard about chrome i figured i’d try it.

chrome to me was weak and flimsy and nowhere near as good as firefox on any level

so i uninstalled chrome, don’t NEED it

and then today i heard about more bugs with chrome and thought of all the media hype about how innovative chrome is

the media needs to stop eating those funny brownies they serve at the googleplex

everything google does isn’t ‘great’

search is about the only thing half decent it does

I save a ton of time with RSS feeds from Firefox.

Thanks Jim for bringing back the memories of the days we were doing battle against Microsoft and their “multi-tasker” Windows 3.1.

The fundamental game changing approach that Chrome is taking on is invigorating. Plus, I think Google is in a slightly better position to challenge the Microsoft OS stranglehold than we were at Quarterdeck.

However there are two major issues to overcome until corps. will look to replace windows with a.n.other OS and a browser for general office apps. One is stability – you can have your browser spreadsheet close because your browser word processor throws a wobbly. It comes down to the lingering perception that office suites are for doing work and browsers are for messing around with facebook.

The second is consumer ease-of-use. The ubiquity of MS Word and other office apps makes employees familiar, at ease and more quickly productive. Having employees come to your company and find you use a different set of cloud office apps will disorientate them.

Perhaps Chrome is a way to standardise the experience, make it easier to use and more consistent, especially around the integration of their own office apps suite.

Does anyone remember reading email in PINE? :)

I also remember DESQview, however my sense of déjà vu comes more from a sense of the age old battles being fought between hosted, client/server and desktop computing models, over and over again.

I disagree that Chrome is not a threat to Microsoft. My sense is that Microsoft makes the majority of its profit from the desktop (specifically Windows & Office) and Google makes the majority of its profit from inside the chrome of a browser. It seems to me that the success of cloud computing is in part based on the ability of the browser to run applications that rival those of the desktop, thus eroding Microsoft’s profitable desktop applications business.

I just checked at my local Staples outlet and Microsoft Office Small Business 2007, Full, English is $596.85 CND. Given the struggles Microsoft has had in trying to move into online search and services, I believe the threat is very real.

Cheers,

Steve