Comments on: Google steps on Firefox with its new Zune...err, Chrome browser

It has the brand equity to make people pay attention to Chrome in the way start-up Flock never did, but could Chrome be Google's Zune moment?

[NWLB]

I'm using Chrome right now. I don't think Google is gunning for the browser market at all, silly as that sounds. It loads radically fast, and frankly, feels like it is running as part of Windows, not as a browser.

With Gmail, Google Apps, and now Chrome, I believe this is a sign of their true and long rumored intentions. They are gunning for Windows and Office. They might not ever launch an OS, but they certainly can effectively take over everything Microsoft attempts to monopolize with Windows.

This clearly isn't a one year plan, it might not even be a five year plan. But the more times goes by and Microsoft can't defend itself, the sooner the day a comes when Linux, Mac, and simply growing numbers of older Windows OS' topple Redmond.

Apple, Intel, and Google seem pretty well suited to render Microsoft dead in ten years.

[sketchee]

As for it being the Zune moment, I think more people have already heard of Chrome in less than a week than even know what a Zune is.

[onlyauser]

Do not trust Google Chrome.

Chrome is spyware mascaraing as a browser.

[mindpower]

What rubbish, it's open source you fool.

[screasey]

Advice: Listen to the videos and read about Chrome.

__Chrome is here to raise the bar__ , even if only a little. If their browser brings about increased compliance to web standards, faster JavaScript engine, heightened security, or even better UI, they win (= we win). Google remains dominant on the Web, not off. If investing in a browser allows them less fuss with dumbing-down functionality and mainstreaming JavaScript2/CSS3 to bring about better webapps, I'm all for it.