It's obvious why Google is doing this. It's just the start to their mobile OS initiative. Chrome will most likely be a catalyst to further erosion of the desktop into a complete cloud.

The thing that concerns me is two things. First, Googles EULA is not going to fly in the Enterprise. It specifically states that pretty much ALL data can be used and mined by Google. Try to convince an ISO9000 company of that offer and you'll get laughed out of the room. That's absolutely something that most companies will not tolerate...and really, shouldn't tolerate. Not one bit.

Second, IE8 looks great. Wow. Microsoft, you've really turned a corner and started listening to your customers a lot more. Features we've been asking for years are finally making it into IE. Yes! THat said, the resource requirements to run the browser is at least 250 MB on my system. That's an incredibly high resource objective to meet. Hopefully the resource requirements will go down signifcantly during the RC and RTM builds because that's going to be a bitter pill to swallow as most companies computers...right now...cannot tolerate such high demands without slowing the user down from doing their job or spending $$$ to upgrade.

Thank you for listening,

John Stocker

Newlight Consulting