I am really surprised they don't have a full blown EDR/EPP solution yet. From the title I thought that would be what this is about but from the content it doesn't look like it.

It seems like it'd be a logical step, especially after their Mandiant acquisition in late 2022 (various security services/threat intelligence). Maybe they would seek to acquire this capability as well.

This feels like a reaction to Edge beginning to eat the enterprise market.

The problem is convincing anyone to buy on to gamble if this product will exist by the end of the contract.

I haven’t looked closer, but it’ll be very funny if this is fully GPO driven when Microsoft is already pushing for cloud configuration via Intune instead.

Paying a subscription for a browser? We desperately need more browser agents supported/developed by “not a Big Tech Corp”

No, paying a subscription for a browser add on that boosts enterprise security.

I too would love more browsers from non-behemoths but I don’t think this particular example is a great argument for it.

I think The Register articulates quite well why it’s a bad idea and honestly it’s high time we consider that ad/AI companies can’t also be browser makers.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/10/chrome_enterprise_pre...

While criticism of Google (or FAANG is valid), the issue is these type of articles is that they write these are bad ideas but never propose a viable replacement that just works. In addition, they TheRegister

- has Google Ads

- has prominent AI promoting articles

Does this compete directly with Island? And what does the Google offering give that Island doesn’t and vice versa?

I don't know man, just put every tab in a virtual remote machine and stream me some pixels

That's quite a lot of corporate fluff to announce 4 bullet points.