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colinprince

the current and prior major release of Chrome...

Ouch! that means Chrome versions[0] older than March 2011 won't be supported?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Release_history

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Which isn't that big of a deal. Take a look at Chrome's upgrade curves, compared to the other browsers:

http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/04/08/the-modern-browser-wars-...

For Chrome, Google is basically saying "we push updates, you better take them or you can use some other browser".

I had ranted about Chromebooks not being a good deal pricewise (which I still claim). But a friend of mine, who heads IT for a large enterprise, noted the issue wasn't up-front acquisition cost. But that Google seems to want to run IT in the cloud and locally. He wasn't willing to take updates to browsers on Google's schedule unless Google was willing to own making all of their LoB apps work too.

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