Will Office 10 work “better” in Internet Explorer, and will it require Silverlight to work?  It would be fascinating (and stupid) if Microsoft made that the case, but I suppose, perhaps, that its no different than Google OS working “better” in Chrome (although Google’s current applications do not use a web application framework like Silverlight).

The other silly one is that so far all signs point to it being “free” for web-versions of Office 10 — does that mean it’s Free, ONLY if you’ve a paid version of Office 10?  Because the last time I saw a paid version of Office is probably the last time I saw a paid version of Photoshop.

(Work and student-bought copies being the natural exception to the rule).

The other thing that struck me is that Chrome could be crap — and it probably won’t, but it could be — and yet, the penetration of this product could be *huge*.  Google owns almost 70% of the total search in North America.  70%!  Even if no one else wrote about it, there was no blogger buzz, and no coverage that we all expect in tomorrow’s news … all it has to do is throw up some strategic links on its SERP’s, on its home page, and on all of its applications (since Chrome will exist for web applications it would be especially apropros), and this will still get thousands and thousands of downloads on the strength of Google’s web presence alone.

And that’s not even taking into the consideration some people think of Google as the Internet itself.