Google Chrome OS
Google recently announced their plans to release Chrome OS, an operating system that is built around the idea of running the Chrome web browser as the primary applications platform. No one has seen nary a peep of the software and yet it already has everyone talking about what it means to the likes of Microsoft. Touted as a new way to think about the OS, Google believes it will change how we think about netbooks and the things we use them for.
It's probably no great secret that I don't find the news at all surprising. I'd previously written that the Chrome web browser was more application engine than actual browser and the progression of the Chrome OS seems like the natural next step. In the purest sense, Google's vision of the future has us running all the programs we used to on our desktops via web applications hosted and delivered via the cloud (although that term is grossly overused). They built a browser to run the programs faster and now they're building an OS for that browser to run on. No bloat, no messy installations and everyone is using all those fancy web apps that Google has been spending all their time designing. Hmm.
Give it another 5 years and we'll all be talking about Google like we talk about Microsoft now. They really are changing the way we use our computers and like any great behemoth, we'll eventually cry monopoly all while begrudgingly using their products to become more efficient and effective at whatever it is we do. I, for one, welcome our new overlords.
It's probably no great secret that I don't find the news at all surprising. I'd previously written that the Chrome web browser was more application engine than actual browser and the progression of the Chrome OS seems like the natural next step. In the purest sense, Google's vision of the future has us running all the programs we used to on our desktops via web applications hosted and delivered via the cloud (although that term is grossly overused). They built a browser to run the programs faster and now they're building an OS for that browser to run on. No bloat, no messy installations and everyone is using all those fancy web apps that Google has been spending all their time designing. Hmm.
Give it another 5 years and we'll all be talking about Google like we talk about Microsoft now. They really are changing the way we use our computers and like any great behemoth, we'll eventually cry monopoly all while begrudgingly using their products to become more efficient and effective at whatever it is we do. I, for one, welcome our new overlords.
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