I can be a bit cynical at times and I admit I had my cynicism all primed and ready to go as I downloaded Google Chrome and installed it on my laptop.  I decided to give it a quick 5 minute test, find something wrong with it, then come on here and give it a sarcastic blast and get on with my day.

To my mild disappointment it works great!  It loads Technet pages faster than IE7, and when it detected that I needed Flash to view the Youtube video in one of my blog posts it installed it and restarted just that one browser tab faster than I could blink.

Download Google Chrome and try it yourself.

Do the people at Microsoft realise that Google is better for finding stuff on the Microsoft website than their own search engine?  Google, first result is spot on.  Live Search, a whole bunch of crap.