Microsoft was certainly inventive with software pricing, etc., but I think Google has done a better job. There's a reason they're taking over the web - PEOPLE LIKE THINGS THAT DON'T COST MONEY. Google has figured out a way for the average user to get Gigabytes of space online, at no cost to the user. Not only have they figured it out, they are EXTREMELY profitable at it.
When they announced the release of Chrome, it was almost a running joke for me - boy was I wrong. I've been using it religiously, and I must say it's an incredible browser. It seems to solve several problems inherent with most browsers. It's fast, easy, and seems to keep up with the standards very well. To make things easy for it's users, shortcuts can easily be added to the desktop (extremely convenient for launching Google's "g-apps"). There are several notable features, but let's just say you have to try it, and I don't mean for a day; give it several week's use.
I've used Safari for Mac since it's beta months, and I've been waiting for an app that's it's equal for Windows. I think Google has raised the bar for browsers I and can't wait for competition to "up their game."
Firefox 3 is a great app, but I don't want to have to enhance functionality by adding plug-ins. I work on too many different computers, and don't have time to maintain plug-ins on all of them.
Chrome's implementation of Web-Kit also makes it a great choice for web browsing. Sites look beautiful and seem to load quickly. Have I said pages load quickly?
I'm definitely an advocate of healthy competition, but sometimes I wonder if we cripple ourselves by trying to limit big companies' progress, with "trust-busting." Recently AMD has forced the government to question Intel's hold on the CPU market... I've used both processors and sworn allegiance to both sides at different times, but isn't competition exactly that - Competition? If AMD really had a processor that was as competitive in every respect (price included), wouldn't they have an almost equal grasp on the market? It takes time for the Market to shift to new product, but once the beast starts moving, it's hard to stop it. A great example of that is Mozilla; Firefox has been under development for years, and now it's more universally accepted than IE.
More for later, but I definitely recommend Chrome; if most web developers do what they're supposed to do, sites will be written using standards - not proprietary technologies. If web standards existed years ago to the extent they do now, Microsoft's integration of IE wouldn't have caused such a ripple in the Matrix.
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