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NEWSWATCH: The web browser wars are heating up with the launch sometime today, Tuesday, 2 September 2008, of the Windows version of Google Chrome, Google's new open source browser. According to various media reports, Google prematurely emailed its comic book explanation to a blogger, who promptly published it online under Creative Commons licence. The launch comes hot on the heels of the release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8.

2 Sep 2008

Click here to download the new Google browser (Windows Vista/XP only - MAC and Linux in development).

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