Google announces Chrome
September 2, 2008
While not strictly in the vein of Salesforce and SaaS, I think Google’s comic-book announcement about Google Chrome, their new browser offering, is sort of big news for everyone in the No Software world.
Admittedly, there is one piece of software that almost all (not counting mobile, etc.) SaaS needs: a browser.
If Google can bring to the public and enterprise worlds a browser with multiple processes instead of just tabs, extensive pre-beta and live testing via Google’s massive infrastructure for browsing webpages, an in-built “browser task manager”, and a bunch of other fun sounding perks, well… how fast can we all switch from IE to that? Are SaaS companies and Salesforce.com partners going to adapt fast enough to get all of their apps to run in Chrome?
In my experience with SaaS products, IE is king, all of the developers rush to get their new product running on IE first, and then maybe a few months later they’ll test it in Firefox, if I’m lucky. If Larry Dignan at ZDnet is right then this could be the materialization of a beautiful partnership between Google and Firefox to bring down Internet Explorer. Interesting times.
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Good post Michael.
I have a couple of concerns about search and data gathering from within the browser from reading the Ts&Cs…but as with so many other things…consumers and business users will vote with their downloads.
After downloading and using, I am impressed. And I agree that it will take a team effort to dent, let alone kill IE.