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This talk and article is uninformed drivel. Yes, Chrome may make a spot in *consumer* browser use, but in business, forget it. IT people will not simply adopt it because it's better. Some of them already got burned once on that with FireFox. To even think that Chrome will "replace" IE in anything but a 5 year period is ridiculous and shows a serious lack of understanding of what IT departments can and cannot do, current market space conditions, and the amount of use and the type of use browsers get in business-centric apps, most of which *require* IE.
I use both IE and Safari (I tried FireFox and it sucks). I use IE in a virtual XP box to access all the MS technologies on my corp net because the other browsers simply barf or are poor substitutes at best, and we're talking things like Sharepoint, credential verification and support across the WAN, and everything else that uses MS technologies for data and IIS services.
Now maybe in 5 years with some real research into the market needs and some development time, but I seriously doubt it will gain any more than 8-10% of the market unless it really beats out FireFox, and even then it won't seriously compete in any *business* environment unless something substantially changes in regard to browsers in general.
The other thing is that the hackers haven't had their shot at it yet either and they have with FireFox. Once touted as the "safe" browser, FireFox soon became the target of hacks and security breaches with many, many security updates and extremely limited functionality and incompatibility issues when interfacing with MS technologies. The next 6 months will be critical for Chrome in this regard. It seems likely to me that since Chome will be chocked full of new "OS-like" functionality and automation, it is just more stuff that hackers will exploit to gain access to machines and enterprises. - Posted by: rich.clark@... Posted on: 09/03/08