{"id":1187,"date":"2008-09-03T15:07:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T15:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/installation-error-for-google-chrome.htm"},"modified":"2008-09-09T20:12:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T20:12:06","slug":"installation-error-for-google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/installation-error-for-google-chrome.htm","title":{"rendered":"Installation error for Google Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to review <a href=\"http:\/\/chrome.google.com\/\">Google Chrome<\/a> &#8211; there&#8217;s plenty of people doing that all over the Internet at the moment; however I did run across an interesting error whilst trying to install it on a Windows Server 2008 (x64) computer today.  I downloaded the installer from Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 and after downloading, I elected to run the installer.  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