The Internet is buzzing today over three stories: Hurricane Gustav’s course through Louisiana, the RNC and Gov. Palin’s pregnant 17-year-old, and news of Google’s new open-source browser, called Chrome. The new Web app, a beta of which could be released for Windows as early as tomorrow, will be based on WebKit and will run each web-address as it’s own protected process. The move marks a move to challenge Microsoft and their still-dominant IE browser head-on. Chrome would also act as the centerpiece of a Google pseudo-OS. With Chrome and Google Gears, the Google would control the entire web experience of corporate users using Google Apps in lieu of Exchange or other solutions. Stay Tuned!
it will be interesting to see if Chrome can get as much market share as Firefox; for now they seem to have leveled off…