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Link: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The cloud's Chrome lining. Google has decided to take matters into its own hands with its Chrome browser, and rightfully so. It needs to control its own destiny and transform the cloud from something interesting to geeks, to mainstream computing for the masses, AND for the enterprise.

Will it succeed? In a word, yes. Its future depends on it, but moreover, the cloud tsunami is already moving in that direction. Google is simply throwing resources at a wave that gets larger by the day. The fact that it is open source is also a critical success factor. This implies even more resources available to test/enhance Chrome, but also, arguably less reluctance on the part of both consumers and enterprises to adopt it.