Chrome rallies the “Army of the Dead” into battle

Huh?

I was reading a story by Matt Asay on CNET about how Chrome is ‘Google’s new Trojan Horse’.

He gets it. I posted a comment to his story that I thought was worth sharing here.

As I mentioned, geeks get where Chrome is going.

Everyone else is left scratching their heads and saying “What’s so cool about Chrome?” or “IE works fine, why do I need another browser?”.

Having seen the rise of Microsoft and their victory over Netscape, this Microsoft vs Google war is going to be VERY entertaining as it plays out.

Google’s revenue stream comes from ads. Microsoft’s comes from software.

Who better to harness the army of “software should be free” open source developers than the company who doesn’t depend on revenues from software?

Reminds me of “Lord of the Rings” where Aragorn raising the “Army of the Dead” for the battle of Minas Tirith…who could have guessed you could get THOSE guys to show up and join the battle against evil?????

Of course, I’ll end the analogy there without going so far as to call say that Microsoft are the forces of evil like Sauron and his crew.

They’ve actually done some great things for the world of software and computers…and Bill is doing great work for the world now.

Matt Asay’s full article is here.

PS – Thank you New Line Cinema for making a great set of films. The image above resides on their site “www.lordoftherings.net”.