JamieG Analysis

The Chrome browser really tells the story of what Google is about.  The one and most telling feature of Chrome, the Google Web Browser, is that it can treat each webpage as a sandbox. This is a revolution in browsing as it defines Googles hopes to make the Browser the operating system of the future.

It was not until computer operating system developed protected memory and multi-tasking did they really start to become the amazing productivity tools of today.  For example.  You can multi-task or run many applications at once.. “SAFELY” without crashing.  An example of the bad old days is “Windows Blue Screen of Death”.  Fortunately the blue screen is very rare these days.

As the browser becomes the platform for running our applications.  For example Gmail, facebook etc, it is ridiculous to think that if one of these browser applications behaves badly, we loose all web windows and applications in the crash that follows. Not exactly a very good experience.

The main objective of Google Chrome is to implement sand boxing of web windows/applications.  As such you can kill of a web application in a window without taking out every window.  The browser is acting more and more like an operating system.

Add to this that Google Gears, the platform of which Google has been developing to make it easier to make Internet applications, will be part of the Chrome browser.

In many ways, Google Chrome is a frontal assault on the future of the applications platform once only known as the OS (Operating system) but now also known as the Web Browser.