Review: Chrome Has Lit a Fire Under the Market

Call the Google Chrome browser a “pearl” or the “grain of sand”.

Call it a “harbinger of change”.

Call it a “break through” or whatever else you want, but one thing is clear, Chrome has lit a fire under the market.

Talk of market share, competing features and confident stances by existing browser makers have filled the web.

Here are some I found particularly interesting.

Gregg Keizer at “Computer World” world writes about how Firefox is adding a privacy mode (in response to Chrome).

Mary Jo Foley at “ZDNet” write about whether Microsoft should create a “lite” IE for time where you want to do a quick browse.

Matt Asay at “cnet” is raising up Microsoft’s SharePoint as the Microsoft’s real answer to Google, the Chrome browser and web apps.

There are reports on how Chrome is taking market share from Safari and Opera  but not IE (Brian Kraemer at ChannelWeb), and then there are reports on how Chrome is taking market share from IE (Gregg Keizer at Computerworld).

There’s even a mention of Chrome as a Firefox Killer (Michael Desmond at “The Redmond Developer”).

Beyond market share, there’s talk from Thomas Claburn at “InformationWeek” about the long road Chrome has before it’s welcomed as an enterprise solution.

With all the press stories pointing in all directions and the comments from the other browser makers on their view of Chrome, one thing is for certain, Chrome has definitely made it’s mark.

Read Greg Keizer’s “Computerworld” stories here and here.

Read Mary Jo Foley’s “ZDNet” story here.

Matt Asay’s “cnet” article about Sharepoint is here.

Michael Desmond’s “The Redmond Developer” story is here.

Thomas Claburn’s story in “Information Week” is here.