Google wants to make sys admins happy before putting them out of job

As the popularity of web-applications growing, the power goes from operating system to browser. The role of the browser is increasing even more thanks to HTML5 implementation that removes third-party plugins (like Flash). That's why the Chrome browser and browser-based operating system Chrome OS - are strategical products for Google. And, of course, one of the most important objectives is their deployment in the Enterprise. Though Chrome was created with security in mind, so far it really could not even be a consideration for most large corporate IT departments, because of the lack of admin features. In many companies, it was even forbidden by IT, and because of this a year ago Google developed the plug-in Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer, which allows you to embed Chrome into IE bypassing system administrator. But now Google has decided not to play catch-up with the sys admins and released today Google Chrome for Business.

Chrome for the business comes with MSI-installer and allows to use standard deployment tools to install the browser for all managed users and supports different security policies (e.g. enable/disable extensions, control the the password manager, set the proxy server, etc.).

It is interesting that a month ago, Linus Upson, Google’s Vice President of Engineering in charge of Chrome, said that "we hope that Chrome will put corporate sys admins out of their jobs because everything will just be updated automatically over the web." Of course, in this case he meant Chrome OS, but the Chrome browser - is the first (and big) step towards the Chrome OS.

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