Baedon's Curious Web

Yesterday, Google announced on it’s Official Blog (http://googleblog NULL.blogspot NULL.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os NULL.html) that is developing an Operating System to work on netbooks. While this may have surprised some people, it did nothing for me. Ever since they launched the Chrome Browser (http://www NULL.google NULL.com/chrome), I’ve been expecting something like this. If you look under the hood of windows operating system, you can see how IE is tied into the the very roots of the Windows environment.

Some key notes:

• Not a full-blown, self-contained OS
  They say it will be built on top of a Linux based system, so they are relying on already existing code to have a platform to launch their browser.
• Web Apps
  One of the driving forces behind this OS is the belief that the future of applications is going to based on the web instead of residing on your desktop.  And if this is the case, you can run these apps from any platform that conforms to modern web conventions. And this leads to the question, why another OS?
• Affordability
  The fact that this puppy is going to be able to run on x86 and ARM (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/ARM_architecture) chipsets will make the thing really easy to acquire the hardware to run it on. Your average computer geek will prolly have a machine setting in the garage this thing can run on.
• Target Users
  Right now, Google is targeting those of us who spend most of our time just surfing the internet and how we can take that experience to the next level. They are not looking to bring in people who use their computers for photo editing of playing massive games (although there are quite a few games that will run under the platform, just forget World of Warcraft or Halo.

With that said, it will be interesting to see what the future will bring if they can pull this off.  For a blogger, this would be a really cool idea, would make getting the laptop we’ve always wanted that much easier.  But for those who need to have the power to edit photos, it is not for you, unless you can get by using something online.

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• Google’s Chrome OS: what it means, why it matters (http://arstechnica NULL.com/gadgets/news/2009/07/googles-chrome-os-coming-to-netbooks-in-late-2010 NULL.ars) (arstechnica.com)
• Google Chrome OS under development (http://www NULL.tuaw NULL.com/2009/07/08/google-chrome-os-under-development/) (tuaw.com)

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