This Google
Sure, you're used to Google being fast. The search engine sifts through billions of Web pages to return a handful of hopefully relevant links in a fraction of a second. True, competitors like Yahoo!
But when it comes to software and services, Google tends to take its sweet time. Gmail has been around since 2004, and open to the public for nearly two years now, but it's still officially a Beta release -- software still in testing before being considered production-worthy. The Picasa image organizer only recently lost its Beta tag after four years in limbo. According to Web-monitoring company Pingdom, 45% of the company's products are in beta at the moment.
Actually, that figure just dropped a tiny bit. The Chrome browser moved out of beta and into full production mode last night.
After 15 version updates in just three months, the browser is now ready to get supported like a real business application and bundled with computer systems. It's easy to imagine someone like Dell
Chrome has come a long way since branching off from the WebKit platform that also powers Apple's
Further fast-paced Foolishness: