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A New Kind of Computing
Google Chrome, Google Chrome OS, and Android are all very exciting to me. What
we are aiming to do is to redefine the nature of commercial computing by making
it modern, simple, and open source. Sergey and I (and Google) grew up with Linux and
we have all benefited greatly from that open model. We believe that it is a great way to
run a healthy and vibrant high tech ecosystem. In fact it is how the Internet came to be.
All of these products are open source because we believe that is the best way to improve
the ecosystem. An open model not only inspires innovation among developers, but also
helps generally improve the quality of the software through peer review and public
scrutiny of the code. And both are good for users. Google has released over 12 million
lines of code across over 350 open source projects, and we host over 220,000 open
source projects on the Google Code site. We have had tremendous response from the
developer community with more and more developers participating in our ecosystem—
an important business goal for us.
Google Chrome
I think Google Chrome is a beautiful, fast, and simple browser. I just read a review
where it handily beat all others in speed and won the overall award. It is an amazing
product, and usage is growing quickly, with over 40 million active users despite the fact
that the product is just eighteen months old. We have worked hard to improve the
security model so you can browse with less worry of your computer being compromised.
We have all sorts of technological magic to make the web into a much more robust
platform, so you can run powerful software as easy as viewing a web page. Chrome is
so small and fast to install you can get it on your computer faster than you can make