Re: Another step for Google's web monopoly?

This is an answer to microsoft adding better security capabilities than previously available to explorer. They still don't make explorer as safe as a well-configured firefox, but they increase the ability of explorer users unwilling or unable or simply too unsavvy to use firefox or a cousin browser to set their security too high for google to properly profit from their ads. Therefore, google has had to launch a browser that protects that profit, erm, at all cost. However, given increasing security concerns from the end customers of browsers and relatively better competition in that area than ever, I think chrome will go the way of the aol browser - optimally adapted for its own company's (aol's back then, google's in this case) sites, but pretty useless, and obviously so, outside that world. In any case, no matter how few sensitive or private information you handle online, it's still a good idea to use more than one browser and clearly separate the traffic you handle through each. Still, chrome is currently inferior even to explorer in terms of security, so consider that... That said, you're not off the mark. google and microsoft are very clearly battling over who will dominate the internet world to the exclusion of the other. Of course, other competitors, of which there are plenty, but all of them smaller than either, want a shot too. In the end, it will depend a lot on neither gaining dominance, and all the others (mozilla and opera, facebook and yahoo, etc... and I would include the growth of more local search engines and of non-microsoft OS's) growing enough that they cannot be sunk by either and rather become swings capable of handling a balance of both, and of any more that come to grow as much as them... In the end, the best check on both will always be to know that they have competitors...