TECHNOLOGY TIPS - GOOGLE'S NEW WEB BROWSER
Google is at it again! You would think that Google is going after Internet Explorer but their sights have been set much higher - Microsoft’s Windows operating system. The new browser is called Chrome and is supposed to be the new wave for businesses who want to run Web-based software. It probably won't happen that soon.
Google announced the new browser in a 38-page comic book
which details features and the reasoning the new
browser. Essentially, Google built a new browser with the idea that if there’s a browser that
can run complex Web-based software then people will be more inclined to
write complex Web-based software.
Skeptics are definitely going to watch and see if this will propel Google ahead of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Developers are torn between a desire to write the more
sophisticated software, but are also asking why write what no one is using. Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer 7 currently holds the number one spot as most popular browser - owning the
market at 47%.
To Google's defense when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 6 in 2001, a lot of the software used with the platform were barely a glimmer in the user's eye. Now Internet Explorer 6 is the second most used browser taking 25% of the market. It just doesn't appear that the major population is looking for a new Internet browser. Only time will tell.
The best summary written by Hank Williams,
a software developer and blogger can be read here.
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