No I haven’t heard any rumors about it. This is just common sense.
Microsoft has a browser because it’s the door out of their platform and if they didn’t have it, their users were going out the window using the very popular alternative: Netscape. Windows installed the door and made it standard, sure enough people started using it.
Firefox came along and made the window useful again, more safe, and for 1/5 of the Internet world the better choice than the door.
Google had long had rumors out there about them building a new browser. As they tell it, the rumors sparked the realization. Their battle is not with Yahoo, it’s with Microsoft. If you’re reading this then the odds are quite good that you already have this topic covered, but what Google’s doing is knocking a wall out of the house and showing you that the yard is just another room in the house.
The forgotten giant is Facebook. They’re building their own platform and are now the quiet giant. Their goal is to bring you to Facebook.com and have you never leave, the chat client was the first real step towards this and office applications can only be so far behind. Can they risk letting the other two get too far ahead in the browser war too? No.
In fact I expect this blast from Google to stir up more trouble than just a battle for IE8. As pointed out elsewhere, Chrome doesn’t even need a sizable userbase, so long as it’s userbase is among it’s most faithful of users they have a teleportation pad in the living room of the house.
So what about Facebook? They’re playing Google’s game from the opposite side of the court. Eventually those two will meet and then, well then we’ll be in for a fireworks show the Internet has yet to see.
Then you just wait for Apple and Safari to really enter the race rather than decorate the outside of the track.
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