Comments on: The significance of Chrome http://blog.xero.com/2008/09/the-significance-of-chrome/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:58:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Xero | News about online accounting software for small business » Blog Archive » Netbooks will change the landscape http://blog.xero.com/2008/09/the-significance-of-chrome/comment-page-1/#comment-1085 Xero | News about online accounting software for small business » Blog Archive » Netbooks will change the landscape Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:35:20 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=747#comment-1085 [...] covered my reasons why before, and this is becoming more obvious to the wider [...] [...] covered my reasons why before, and this is becoming more obvious to the wider [...]

]]> By: Rob http://blog.xero.com/2008/09/the-significance-of-chrome/comment-page-1/#comment-446 Rob Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:54:34 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=747#comment-446 I am not a Xero user yet but I am working on it. I have been watching the SaaS model for many years now and currently work for a SaaS company. Google Chrome has added functionality from Opera, Firefox and Safari plus heaps of new innovations. I am already using it and I have fallen in love with it. It still crashes but far less than the other Browsers and it recovers quicker and easier. I think that Chrome is going to enhance the SaaS model. I think that Google is the only Company in the world that can truly take on Microsoft and Internet Explorer. It is great that Xero have embraced the new kid on the block as it shows that they are dedicated to the future of SaaS and Web Applications. I am not a Xero user yet but I am working on it. I have been watching the SaaS model for many years now and currently work for a SaaS company.

Google Chrome has added functionality from Opera, Firefox and Safari plus heaps of new innovations. I am already using it and I have fallen in love with it. It still crashes but far less than the other Browsers and it recovers quicker and easier.

I think that Chrome is going to enhance the SaaS model. I think that Google is the only Company in the world that can truly take on Microsoft and Internet Explorer.

It is great that Xero have embraced the new kid on the block as it shows that they are dedicated to the future of SaaS and Web Applications.

]]> By: Craig Walker http://blog.xero.com/2008/09/the-significance-of-chrome/comment-page-1/#comment-426 Craig Walker Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:13:11 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=747#comment-426 It's been interesting seeing some of the analysis coming out of browsers like Chrome and IE8. These browsers are really starting to push the browser-as-an-operating-system concept to the next level (such as tab isolation using multiple system processes etc). There's a good breakdown at Slashdot (http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/09/03/2244226.shtml). It’s been interesting seeing some of the analysis coming out of browsers like Chrome and IE8. These browsers are really starting to push the browser-as-an-operating-system concept to the next level (such as tab isolation using multiple system processes etc). There’s a good breakdown at Slashdot (http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/09/03/2244226.shtml).

]]> By: Zoho docs - yet another reason operating systems will become irrelevant at diversity.net.nz http://blog.xero.com/2008/09/the-significance-of-chrome/comment-page-1/#comment-424 Zoho docs - yet another reason operating systems will become irrelevant at diversity.net.nz Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:13:56 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=747#comment-424 [...] said it often before, and Rod also commented on how Google Chrome helps in this respect, but more and more of the core functionality of the [...] [...] said it often before, and Rod also commented on how Google Chrome helps in this respect, but more and more of the core functionality of the [...]

]]> By: Dermott Renner http://blog.xero.com/2008/09/the-significance-of-chrome/comment-page-1/#comment-420 Dermott Renner Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:06:26 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=747#comment-420 Rod, Xero is a great product ( I am an enthusiastic user) but you don't need to push the SaaS model into an Alice in Wonderland fantasy world to get more sales; it won't happen overnight but it will happen as that great NZ icon Rachel Hunter used to say in the hair commercial. Chrome, built on a dodgy Apple Safari code base, impossible to install on some enterprise computers, with a license agreement (now changed) more about protecting Google's business than providing an unnecessary service. Not everything works all the time in the Cloud especially when it rains, just ask Google with their recent Gmail outage, Amazon with their second S3 outage this year. Just because you can put stuff in the Cloud doesn't mean you should or that everyone will or that everything should be there. I don't think lower costs drive innovation; understanding people (the users needs) and the problems they have results in innovation. There is a lot of technology out there now that simple does not get it. Xero does. Rod, Xero is a great product ( I am an enthusiastic user) but you don’t need to push the SaaS model into an Alice in Wonderland fantasy world to get more sales; it won’t happen overnight but it will happen as that great NZ icon Rachel Hunter used to say in the hair commercial.

Chrome, built on a dodgy Apple Safari code base, impossible to install on some enterprise computers, with a license agreement (now changed) more about protecting Google’s business than providing an unnecessary service.

Not everything works all the time in the Cloud especially when it rains, just ask Google with their recent Gmail outage, Amazon with their second S3 outage this year. Just because you can put stuff in the Cloud doesn’t mean you should or that everyone will or that everything should be there.

I don’t think lower costs drive innovation; understanding people (the users needs) and the problems they have results in innovation. There is a lot of technology out there now that simple does not get it. Xero does.

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