Summary

With Software as a Service as the new IT paradigm, accessing the Information System from a user desktop or a mobile device has raised new security, performance, and user-interface requirements. This chapter has addressed the strategy Google has adopted to meet these new challenges. This strategy mainly relies on a joint effort pursued on the web browser front, with Chrome, a speedy browser, and on the operating system front, with Chrome OS, a speedy OS dedicated to quick and efficient operation of its lone application: Chrome.