Google Chrome OS - 2010
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- BannedKappa
Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/0…
Wow. So remember all those whispers about a Google desktop operating system that never seem to go away. You thought they might with the launch of Android, it’s mobile OS, but they persisted. And for good reason, because it’s real.
- BannedKappa0
This is huge!
- jaylarson0
You're fast. I was just going to post this. Got a hemi in yr brain too?
- jaylarson0
Does Chrome have any problems that need hacks?
- kgvs720
Chrome OS is still using linux os as its underlying foundation.
- moth0
I hate the way that the author focused completely on this decimating Microsoft like they're the only company running traditional operating systems.
- moth0
Why would anyone bother "installing" it when it will run in "any standards-compliant browser on any OS"?
- utopian0
I smell a bomb...
- version30
kerpowee!
- Stugoo0
lots and lots of pitfalls...
lets see how it evolves
- fiesta0
this would be great... if a home level router existed that didn't freak out and require a couple of refreshes every 70 page views or so
- benfal990
its true, today a computer without internet connection is mostly useless.
- Nairn0
When this is aimed squarely at the mobile tech midpoint between netbook and mobile phone, this is indeed a very big thing.
Whatever becomes that standard, becomes The Standard for the next 10 years.
I think it's kind of fair to single MS out here - Linux doesn't have brand leader focusing on mobile, Apple competes on its own terms, apparently uninterested in licensing its OS to other platforms, so is irrelevant. It's only MS that's made a point of attempting to interject itself into this sphere, far from its own, at the cost of great, open adoption.
I mean - XP is the choice of platform for netbooks? Windows mobile for handhelds? c'mon.
- Nairn0
So, I've just read the article - basically - this is essentially a browser on steroids, running on a Linux shell?
Meaning that ALL it runs is The Browser. Meaning that all the computer's resources are dedicated to the html and Javascript interface, whilst any complicated stuff goes server-side.
... Meaning - the future's an even better time to be a webhead.
Hmm. Interesting. I wish I was better at JQuery...
- trooperbill0
if it works like thin client where all the cpu is handled server side then we could all experience super high rez games without the need to beef up ram of gfx cards...which would be nice.
- moth0
Can't see it making a single dent in the huge market that is corporate IT infrastructure.
In those terms, this is not even worthy of being called 'competition'.
- And the iPhone is a footnote?Nairn
- It might... but too many IT dudes are afraid of being laid off, so they'll stick to those Exchange servers and Winblows boxen forever...vaxorcist
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- moth0
Fuck the iPhone. Mobiles have been doing everything it does for years already. Only now it's fashionable.
I fail to see how the iPhone is relevant at all.
- Nairn0
It's a consumer device. Google gets most of its money from consumers. I wouldn't imagine Google give a hoot about the corporate sector right now - why bother? They just need to ... reparadigmatize ... web interaction, then if there's a need, corporate will follow suit in a decade or so. Probably not though.
My point is merely that this move is nothing to do with corporate,
Let MS further dash themselves against the rocks of Sun or Oracle - that's not Google's cause.
- Corvo20
If it's based on Linux, it'll be as huge as Linux is today. The lack of competitive/dedicated Linux applications is what keeps Linux as a nerdy OS, not Microsoft. As to online apps, I think it's a step down from the independence users have today and will probably mean that raw computer power will be severely diminished - at least at the house-hold level.