Chrome – faster and better than IE
The buzz the past few weeks has been the new browser from Google, mysteriously named Chrome.
While it might seem weird for a search engine company to enter into the fiercely competitive browser market, presently dominated by the worst browser on the planet Internet Explorer there is a method behind Google’s madness.
People don’t realise that Google has been a thorn in Microsoft’s side for at least the last couple of years.
You may know that Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo, who turned down the offer of obscene amounts of money to keep doing whatever it is they do at Yahoo. And Microsoft already has a search engine, the underwhelming MSN.
My guess is Microsoft wanted to leverage Yahoo as well so they could go head to head with Google and try for a slice of the billion-dollar search engine scene.
The thing is that Microsoft, while generally acknowledged as being adequate at building operating systems, servers and office suites, is totally naff at everything else.
It seems to think that with enough brains, brawn and money, everything it does will turn to gold.
Microsoft is wrong as anyone who has tried to use Microsoft’s website will attest. It is, and always has been, an absolute horror to navigate.
This is because Microsoft have a way of doing things that is almost deliberately at odds with the way everyone else does things, their philosophy being that we should change to conform to their standards. This “wag the dog” approach is what sends some people into tailspins.
Imagine heavy-hitters from all the big organisations meeting over skim-milk lattes and creating standards that everyone agrees to adhere to.
Microsoft flatly refuses to accept this standard because they have their own way of doing the same thing. Um, no.
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