The most important news of the year – Google will launch Google Chrome OS by mid of 2010. First of all what is Chrome OS ?
“the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web” “so it is our effort to re-think what operating systems should be”
It is going to be totally open sourced (code will be released by the end of this year) and will run on both x86 as well as ARM chip set. Software architecture? “windowing system on top of a Linux kernel” and Web is going to be the obvious development platform.
Chrome OS could prove to be an assassin of MS and I mean this in a big way. Google is completely changing the paradigm of OS. Until now an OS was typically considered to be a static program lying in side your hard disk whose main purpose was to boot your system and then handle most of the controls to the application programs like browser etc. This approach will take a back seat now and starting from Chrome OS, OS will be totally integrated with the web. Of course the earlier paradigm will still be around but that might just slowly but very surely vanish into thin air down the road. This is the starting of a new era… Google is ready to redefine the Operating System.
Every passing minute there are reviews coming and the blogosphere is almost flooded with this updated from Google. Anyway I am cutting it short here. What will happen to Win after Chrome OS is out in the market? and Apple-Google relationship? What about Chrome OS itself?- Good, Bad, Ugly? Follow-Up (loads of them this time) and decide for yourself.
Follow-Up
Good
TechCrunch : Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome by MG Siegler
CNET News : Google plans Chrome-based Web operating system by Stephen Shankland
Ars technical : Google’s Chrome OS: what it means, why it matters by John Timmer
GIGAOM : Google Chrome OS & What It Means For Future of Computing by Stacey Higginbotham
Technologizer : Eleven Questions About Google’s Chrome OS by Harry McCracken
BAD ? UGLY?
Mashable! : Chrome OS: But Will it Run Photoshop? by Stan Schroeder
LinuxWorld.com : Five Reasons Google Chrome OS Will Fail by David Coursey
CNET News : Google’s Linux fork may not trouble Microsoft by Matt Asay
CloudAve : Adding to the ChromeOS Deluge… by Ben Kepes
CNET News : It’s time for Google’s CEO to resign from Apple’s board by Sam Diaz
TheNextWeb.com : Prediction: Google and Apple go to War. by Zee
neowin.net : Microsoft set to respond to Google OS next Monday? by Tom Warren
AROUND THE BLOGS REVIEWS
Financial Times: Around the blogs: Google Chrome OS
ZDNet : Google ChromeOS: Have people taken leave of their senses? by Dennis Howlett
July 9th, 2009 at 1:10 am
Around the blogs review of Google Chrome OS http://bit.ly/1nER0X #Chrome OS
July 9th, 2009 at 3:01 am
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July 10th, 2009 at 1:13 am
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July 11th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Loads of links following the #Chrome OS coverage, http://digg.com/u17soQ?t
July 12th, 2009 at 2:58 am
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July 12th, 2009 at 3:17 am
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July 29th, 2009 at 3:00 am
[...] Google-Voice) OR was the App not following guidelines (difficult) OR is this just one of the things after Chrome OS? But Apple’s attitude is certainly something to worry about. Google-Voice by all means is a [...]
August 4th, 2009 at 10:18 am
[...] has come as no surprise after the way events have been unfolding for the past 1 month – Google Chrome OS then Apple rejecting Google Apps then FCC’s enquiry in to the matter. I am wondering what Steve [...]
August 5th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
[...] H.264 and this could boost YouTube and make it much smoother. Android (more info) and the upcoming Chrome OS could also benefit hugely from this [...]
October 13th, 2009 at 1:41 am
[...] growing coldness between the two companies. The good old friends became ‘frenemies’ when Google announced the upcoming Chrome OS, shortly after Schmidt resigned from Apple’s board and then that legendary Google-Voice iPhone [...]
October 14th, 2009 at 3:06 am
Google Chrome OS Coming in 2010
http://bit.ly/Etj9D
October 16th, 2009 at 2:43 am
[...] am waiting for Chrome OS from Google to hot up the OS [...]
January 18th, 2010 at 8:55 am
RT @TechDusts: Google Chrome OS Coming In 2010 (To Assassinate Windows?) | TechDusts http://bit.ly/1nER0X