Google Browser Named for Microsoft Failure?
September 2, 2008
Is Google trying to tease Microsoft or just blatantly slap them across the face? The new Chrome browser, that we will here more about tomorrow, shares its name with a failed Microsoft product from 1998. I can’t imagine this detail escaped the information king. Use the name of a failed project from your competitor to launch a new product of yours that is squarely aimed at said competitor. Brilliant.
The new Chrome browser is not just aimed at Microsoft’s leading browser Internet Explorer. No doubt that is the first target, made even more obvious by the Windows only launch. But, as Tech Crunch pointed out so well earlier today, they are really after Windows.
If Google is able to put a browser on your computer it is one thing, IE has another Firefox/Safari to worry about. But it is more than that, it solidifies their presence on your machine. The browser becomes a foot in the door. With it will come an opening for Google to push the rest of their products. And every one of these products will share two characteristics: They will be free and they will be direct competitors of a Microsoft product. Keep in mind this is all open source, so basically they are giving everyone this same foothold.
Expect to see millions of web devices, even desktop web devices, in the coming years that completely strip out the Windows layer and use the browser as the only operating system the user needs. That was going to happen anyway, but Chrome + Gears just made the decision a whole lot easier for hardware manufacturers to make. - TechCrunch
Should be interesting.
That’s too funny. I think this just shows how much Google is becoming more like the new Microsoft.
Although I suppose open source makes them a little better. Nice post.
Chrome is actually a common name for elements of program UI. You won’t hear your average user throwing it around, but browser developers use the word “chrome” every day.
so who is more evil - google or microsoft?