vendredi 5 septembre 2008

Chrome one again

The last big fuss among technologists is about Chrome. The new Google browser stirs the internauts community and raises some main discussions about: (1) its functionalities, characteristics, performances, (2) its impact in the political-economical world mainly confronting it to Microsoft Explorer and Mozilla.
Considering the latest evolution of Google, it's normal that if they decide to create and launch a browser it's a nice good one. I don't want to discuss the characteristics or performances of this browser. Most of the reviews i read rate it pretty well. Even though in the comparisons with IE and Mozilla it doesn't go “jaw dropping”...

What draws my attention is that in parallel with all the evaluation, discussions and fuss around this new browser probably many people, mostly the ones who believe in the beautiful "anti Microsoft monopole" current will end up by adopting it. But what does it really mean? Weakening a giant? Maybe... but doesn't it mean, like always in the history, replacing this giant with another one at least as powerful as the previous?

My main question: We say that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". Aren't these intentions the engine that maybe the new giant Google bases it's raising on?

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