Google Chrome Alone Can't Defeat Microsoft's Browser

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No matter how much I tryed..I can not download Google Chrome.
It goes through all.. then nothing....Is there anything you can say to help?....Gary Mancini

Gary Mancini of FL 10:26AM October 09, 2008

Cloud computing and browser based (web) applications are overrated. The web (HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, etc.) was never intended to be a platform to run applications. Protocols and infrastructure need to be greatly enhanced if web service based computing is going to rival desktop computing. Given the pure power and low cost of desktop computers today, it would be ludicrous for developers to ignore this in favor of a purely web environment. A lot of Web 2.0 cheerleaders have never developed a web application before and they don't understand the limitations, costs, and other burdens associated with this type of development. Although jaded from Java applets circa 1999, I must admit that Java seems to be one of the few truly platform independent technologies that provides native capabilities for desktop and internet based computing. I think consumers would be better served if players in the industry focused on an architecture that leverages the powers of the desktop AND service based computing. JavaScript running in a web browser does not constitute leveraging the desktop.

Alexander Sterczek of IL 12:36PM September 07, 2008

There is always space for innovation and new ideas in our society.Slowly slowly more people will try to take a chance to check how new rivals of internet explorer has designed there web browser. Also there must be alternatives,so the individual can choose. Think the those old days when there was no competitor to internet explorer which was really slow and lack much of add on. Now due to these new browsers, the IE8 beta 2 has come. I think in near future there will be more technological refinement in online world that will provide more options,more security with more smooth functions. I want to congratulation to Google for its efforts for breaking the monopoly issues in the online world.Also its opensource commitment makes him the real leader of www...................

Dishant Sharma 1:44PM September 03, 2008

I CAN'T DOWNLOAD CHROME.WHILE INSTALLING IT SHOWS SOME POINTS TO FIX OF WINDOWS FIREWALL.
BUT IN EXCEPTION I COULD'T FIND GOOGLEUPDATE.EXE
HELP ME OUT.IF ANY ONE HAS ANY IDEA..............
HERE

kazi Mosharraf Hossain 5:59AM September 03, 2008

Microsoft has a lot of ground to make up when it comes to browsers. But I agree that most people are creatures of habit and, like Apple fans, PC fans, Ford fans and other folks with product 'loyalty' are more afraid of change than actually experiencing great things. Creatures of habit.
It will take a prodigious effort on Google's part to wrest browser control away from Microsoft. Features are only a small part of that endeavor. They have to overcome the fear of the new in most end users and doing that is, in my humble opinion, next to impossible. It's not a tech thing. It's a human nature thing.

Fatesrider of CA 1:51AM September 03, 2008

The Google Chrome Beta Version has too many defeats, often need to refresh a web page to display all of the items, cannot display the multi-media player correctly etc...
It's even cannot catch up the features of IE6, how to defeat IE7 or the comming 8 then?

Eric of 1:19AM September 03, 2008