Looking over the past year, Google’s Sundar Pichai also talked about how Google has ramped up its release cycle for Chrome, aiming to release a new version every six weeks so that “the version number doesn’t matter,” which he said is important to users and especially to developers. At the last I/O, Chrome was still in Windows-only beta testing for Chrome 4. Google has released eight new versions of Chrome since then, and is now in beta testing for Chrome 12.
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