Google has just released a web browser (Google Chrome). It's still in beta, but I've seen people using just like a finished one. Having read their blather about it, I first thought they were advancing browsers so they could deliver apps better. That way they can take on Microsoft's Office quasi-monopoly. All good.
And then I read in the Economist that Google have been worried that Microsoft have tweaked IE to advance the MSN search engine.
Sadly, in looking for the original Economist article, I found this one which sums up my thoughts very well (and is clearly better researched). The point I think is most interesting is the potential for the browser to act as the user interface part of the operating system. If they did that, they make the actual operating system much less important and possibly put a small but fatal chink in Microsoft's armour.
Posted by carla at September 13, 2008 09:51 PM