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Something completely underappreciated in how Google Chrome revolutionized the web and security and software in general — was the silent background auto-update + and non-admin user-level installs. It set a bar that changed everything on ability to make progress & address threats. Broke IT paradigms.

When Chrome came out, IT admins kept asking how it was possible users were installing it without admin? That's because they did not really understand the system. Developers and attackers in XP days were so used to users having admin they rarely bothered trying to make anything work without it.