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Can Google Chrome make people switch from Microsoft?

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4 Sep
2008
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How do you refine a piece of software that everyone has been using since the Internet arrived on home computers in the mid 1990s?

The answer, as Google will tell you, is to make it smarter and slicker. Its Chrome browser, launched on Tuesday, promises to give people the information they need faster and also offer a more intuitive interface.

An answer to Microsoft’s recently announced Internet Explorer 8 beta 2, it has some of Microsoft’s nifty new features, as well as the appeal of being “alternative”.

 
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