From InfoWorld: Bowing to the reality that Google's Chrome has become the world's fastest-growing browser -- and by some accounts, the choice in the enterprise -- Microsoft today launched a Chrome add-on for quickly accessing Office Online apps and their documents.
The small extension adds an icon to Chrome that when clicked exposes the most recently-edited documents in OneDrive or OneDrive for Business; lets the user create a new document in the browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote or Sway; and open locally-stored documents.
While Microsoft has been beating the cross-platform drum company-wide since CEO Satya Nadella took over in early 2014, the recognition that Microsoft's biggest browser rival deserves special treatment was still stunning.
That's because Chrome has been on a growth tear the last year and a half, and now poses the biggest threat Microsoft's own Internet Explorer (IE) has faced since it crushed Netscape more than a decade ago. Last month, Chrome's user share, a proxy for the percentage of users worldwide who run a specific browser, was 29.9 percent, second only to IE's 51.6 percent.
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