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The future is shiny: Google’s Chrome has arrived

What fun! Didn’t I tell you Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) were the way of the future?

Google has just released Chrome for Windows, a browser designed for the evolving Web. I’m not running Windows, so haven’t tried it myself, but the feature list makes such sense. The browser is designed to run Rich Internet Applications, such as Google Docs (well, Google championed AJAX, too), quickly and reliably. Chrome, according to Google, gets out of your way.

Anyway, they explain it better than I do, so jump on over and have a look. Don’t forget to check out their heraldic comic book, either.

This really is revolutionary: these guys have very big plans, you can bank on that. Already, people and businesses are switching from desktop office applications to Google Docs. If this takes off - if! who am I kidding - one can see the future looking quite bleak for those that actually SELL operating systems. Their products are destined to become thinner: the business will all be at the server side on the Web. There hasn’t ever been money in the browser.

It will be mighty interesting to see Microsoft’s reaction. Come to mention it, this is a fabulous opportunity for browser vendors and developers: no doubt we’ll see more innovations in this line.

Well, I must return to work, but let me end by saying that you can mark my words: a few years down the track from now, and well into the future, you will see “Google Releases Chrome” featuring on Internet and Web timelines. It’s a turning point.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 at 6:06 pm and is filed under General Reflections, Web. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “The future is shiny: Google’s Chrome has arrived”

  1. media boy Says:
    September 2nd, 2008 at 6:38 pm

    i’m willing to try it out just to see if it works more efficiently than FireFox… if it’s faster than Firefox, has tabs and isn’t IE, then it should be perfect

  2. admin Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 pm

    That’s true, media boy! I gave it a whirl on hubby’s Window’s laptop just now, and I think it’ll be a great replacement for Firefox (which I currently use when Opera doesn’t handle things it should :) ).

    I can’t ditch Opera, though. I love the multiple search options right in the address bar, the keyboard browsing and the mail client. The Speed Dial is pretty awesome, too, and even though Chrome has a similar thing with your most visited pages, I like the control you have with Opera.

    Let’s see what other browser vendors come up with.

    Cheers,

    Mandy

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