Exactly 10 years ago Tuesday, a newly promoted vice president named Sundar Pichai stood before a group of tech reporters in a conference room at Google's Mountain View, California, headquarters. There, he revealed the Chrome web browser publicly for the first time. Alas!!! It went well, to say the least.
Over the last decade, the comparatively sleek browser eclipsed rivals and now accounts for 60 percent of browser usage, according to analytics firm StatCounter. There are 2 billion copies of Chrome installed, with 1 billion people using it each month. And Pichai, buoyed by a product he's called "exceptionally profitable," is now Google's chief executive.
People initially laughed at Chrome, recounted Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, the Chrome team leader who joined the project shortly after in 2009. But Google stuck to its mission. "It was designed for complex, rich web applications -- the direction where computing was going," he said.
Nobody's laughing now. That's where the computing still is headed today, and Chrome is towing the rest of us along.
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