October 6, 2008 by Jay Smith
Last month’s launch of Chrome is set to wake Microsoft’s bosses from slumber. They have feared this since 1990s. Chrome was very imposing. But its acceptability may take some time. Corporate houses may not switch over to Chrome just like that. They will need lots of convincing and for that Chrome has to be many times better than the IE and Fire Fox browsers. Even Microsoft had problems in convincing its IE users to switch over to newer versions. Along with Chrome, Google has packaged high performance Java-Script Engine with Google gears, a mechanism to store offline web applications.
Chrome may not be able to immediately threaten Microsoft’s 72% share in web browser market, but will definitely help Google to up the ante. IE has been the prominent web browser because it comes bundled with Windows OS. But the days are not far off when Chrome will be challenging the hegemony of IE. Chrome can scale the popularity charts only when Google finds a way out to distribute this along with other OS or web applications. Launch of Google docs and spreadsheets has made all software applications provider sit up and take note of these packages. The world is progressing in the right direction and days of licensed software are being numbered.
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