Chrome 1.0 released
12th December 2008
In a surprising move (to me at least), Google has today bumped Chrome from 0.4 to 1.0 and removed the beta tag. Not that I think it's a bad move - any move that diminishes MSIEs market share or encourages MS to bring it up to date is a good one. Surprising though because Googles approach in the past has been one of keeping things in beta for a long time. Gmail for example, has been in beta for a long long time. Over two years IIRC. So I was kinda expecting Chrome to be in beta for the next decade. Perhaps more of a marketing type move as opposed to a technical one. Isn't that a cynical thought...?