Google with its Chrome, hits it hard this Time

Little by little, iteration by iteration, the Chrome browser is slowly turning into a full-fledged multitasking Operating System.

Yeah, technically it's actually running on another OS, but you increasingly never need to launch anything else. You can view and edit documents in Google docs, watch and listen to HTML5 videos and audio, communicate via Gmail and its Google Voice plugin, use Google Docs as a file system... and the line between "Chrome OS" and "Chrome on any other OS" suddenly grows very fine.




Google's long term strategy seems to be to supplant Microsoft by first building the best browser, then making it easy to move your files to Google Docs... and then slowly but finally making Windows and Office irrelevant.

Obviously no one will abandon Microsoft products anytime soon; but as cloud computing grows more relevant, Google slowly iterates feature after feature, and people grow accustomed to working in the browser, then one day, maybe only a couple of years from now, a whole lot of people - and businesses - will begin to think to themselves "Hey, we haven't actually needed Windows or Office in months. Why do we even have them at all?".