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In this week's edition of the Economist they ran a cartoon with an outraged Yahoo! sitting atop the shoulders of a belligerent Bing, both cudgel-bearing and incensed, standing on the palm of a club-wielding Neanderthal-like titan Microsoft, shouting, "We think it is wrong to have a market dominated by one giant!", to which the finger-pointing Palaeolithic Google responds, "Do a web search for 'operating system'..."
Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of next year and is open source. It is said to have a "lightweight" operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. It is said to include "speed, simplicity and security" as the "key aspects of Google Chrome OS", according to googleblog.blogspot.com. It is reported to run with a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel and involve the open source community.
Many are crying out for competition in the web search market but I haven't heard anyone talking about operating systems. Google is setting out its stall to solve what some people see as inherent problems associated with Windows: it has too much of an overhead and that it wasn't designed for web-based computing.
One of the major problems with Windows XP is compatibility and that of its drivers and that the new operating system can be downloaded on to any machine and it "just works". Users will then have a portable operating system.
Does anyone agree that we may be ushering in an era where the web is the rightful place to store all our files and documents and maybe use a pay-per-use system for accessing and using desktop software, which would benefit web-based systems like Chrome OS? If so, it could be revolutionary. Or is Google just creating a system that gets more of our data?
Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of next year and is open source. It is said to have a "lightweight" operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. It is said to include "speed, simplicity and security" as the "key aspects of Google Chrome OS", according to googleblog.blogspot.com. It is reported to run with a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel and involve the open source community.
Many are crying out for competition in the web search market but I haven't heard anyone talking about operating systems. Google is setting out its stall to solve what some people see as inherent problems associated with Windows: it has too much of an overhead and that it wasn't designed for web-based computing.
One of the major problems with Windows XP is compatibility and that of its drivers and that the new operating system can be downloaded on to any machine and it "just works". Users will then have a portable operating system.
Does anyone agree that we may be ushering in an era where the web is the rightful place to store all our files and documents and maybe use a pay-per-use system for accessing and using desktop software, which would benefit web-based systems like Chrome OS? If so, it could be revolutionary. Or is Google just creating a system that gets more of our data?